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Remove the unmaintained CocoaPods, Carthage, Travis and jazzy tooling - #23

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The Swift Package Manager manifest is the only integration that works. Everything removed here was either broken or years stale:

  • the podspec has been stale at 6.3.2 since 2023, and the Cartfile pinned RxSwift 6.5.0, five minor versions behind the manifest
  • no release has ever carried a Carthage archive
  • .travis.yml named an Xcode project and scripts that no longer exist, and carried an encrypted secret belonging to the upstream repository
  • scripts/all-build.sh and scripts/all-tests.sh drive targets and schemes named RxBluetoothKit iOS, RxBluetoothKit macOS and so on, but this fork names them RxBluetoothKit_Airthings iOS/macOS/tvOS/watchOS — so both fail on their first command. all-tests.sh also pins destinations to iOS 13.6, tvOS 13.4, iPhone 8 and Apple TV 4K.
  • .jazzy.yaml named a podspec path that does not exist here, so documentation generation could not have succeeded
  • .swift-version, orphaned at 5.0, was only ever read by the CocoaPods and jazzy tooling
  • the Pods and Podfile.lock entries in .gitignore have nothing left to ignore

The committed docs/ tree is removed because it was out of date: it was generated for
6.0.0, under the upstream module name, and documented an API five releases old. GitHub
Pages is not enabled on this repository, so it was never served anywhere — and the
Api reference link in the README points at the site upstream still publishes, not at
docs/, so that link is unaffected. The doc comments in Source/ are untouched, and Xcode
surfaces those directly; a generated reference can be reintroduced with DocC if we want one.

Removing the podspec does not retract the pod versions already published — it only means no new
ones. A consumer referencing the podspec by :git/:branch rather than through trunk would lose it.

Two documentation files also stopped matching the manifest, so they are corrected here: the README
listed iOS 9 / tvOS 11 / Xcode 11.4 against a manifest requiring iOS 12 / tvOS 12 / tools 5.9 and now
points at Package.swift instead of restating floors that drift, and HOW_TO_RELEASE.md is rewritten
to describe what actually happens — changelog, merge, tag, release — and to say plainly that raising
the RxSwift range is what decides the version number.

Worth knowing: RxBluetoothKit_Airthings.xcodeproj links RxSwift, Quick, Nimble and RxTest
from $(PROJECT_DIR)/Carthage/Build, so with the Cartfiles gone it can no longer be built at all.
It was already unbuildable from a clean clone without an undocumented carthage bootstrap, and the
README itself said Carthage stopped working around Xcode 12. Deleting those ~31 references without
replacing them would only make the project fail differently, so the choice — migrate it to SPM
dependencies, or drop it along with Tests/ and the two remaining generate-* scripts — is left as
its own change. The Carthage/ ignore lines stay for the same reason: that directory is still named
by the project.

Also out of scope, and worth their own change: scripts/generate-testable.sh emits
@testable import RxBluetoothKit against a module called RxBluetoothKit_Airthings and is still
invoked by three build phases, scripts/generate-mocks.sh defaults to a removed SDK path, and
CHANGELOG.md stops at 6.3.2 while the tags run to 6.3.6.

No source file is touched. swift build passes on both the native and swiftbuild engines.

Neither is maintained. The podspec has been stale at 6.3.2 since 2023 and no
release has ever carried a Carthage archive, so the Swift Package Manager
manifest is the only integration that actually works.

The Cartfile also pinned RxSwift 6.5.0, five minor versions behind the manifest,
which made it actively misleading.
Travis is not used; the build workflow on GitHub Actions is. The config also
referenced an Xcode project name and scripts that no longer exist, and carried
an encrypted secret belonging to the upstream repository.

Documentation generation could not have succeeded either: .jazzy.yaml named a
podspec path that does not exist here, and pointed its module, author and site
at upstream. The generated HTML under docs/ was a stale copy of upstream's
published reference, which is still served from its own site.
It described bumping a podspec, generating jazzy documentation, building a
Carthage archive and pushing to the CocoaPods trunk. None of that happens, and
the files it referred to are gone.
all-build.sh and all-tests.sh drive targets and schemes named "RxBluetoothKit iOS",
"RxBluetoothKit macOS" and so on. This fork's targets and shared schemes are named
RxBluetoothKit_Airthings iOS/macOS/tvOS/watchOS, so both scripts fail on their first
command — the same defect the Travis config was removed for. all-tests.sh also pins
destinations to iOS 13.6, tvOS 13.4, iPhone 8 and Apple TV 4K.

The Carthage and CocoaPods entries in .gitignore have nothing left to ignore now that
the manifests are gone.
The requirements block named iOS 9, tvOS 11 and Xcode 11.4 while the manifest
requires iOS 12, tvOS 12 and Swift tools 5.9, and the Swift-version table below
it stopped at Swift 5.0. Point at Package.swift instead of restating floors that
drift. .swift-version, orphaned at 5.0, was only ever read by the CocoaPods and
jazzy tooling that is gone.

The release note on RxSwift said the bump was breaking and then asked only for a
changelog line; say plainly that the version number is the decision.

Carthage/Checkouts and Carthage/Build go back into .gitignore: the Xcode project
still names that directory, so unlike Pods it is not dead yet.
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LaStrada merged commit cc58dd6 into master Sep 3, 2026
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