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[README] Goal updates

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CocoaPods manages dependencies for your Xcode projects. CocoaPods manages dependencies for your Xcode projects.
You specify the dependencies for your project in one easy text file. CocoaPods You specify the dependencies for your project in a simple text file: your `Podfile`.
resolves dependencies between libraries, fetches source code for the CocoaPods recursively resolves dependencies between libraries, fetches
dependencies, and creates and maintains an Xcode workspace to build your source code for all dependencies, and creates and maintains an Xcode
project. workspace to build your project.
Installing and updating CocoaPods is very easy. Don't miss the [Installation Installing and updating CocoaPods is very easy. Don't miss the [Installation
guide](http://guides.cocoapods.org/using/getting-started.html#installation) and the guide](http://guides.cocoapods.org/using/getting-started.html#installation) and the
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## Project Goals ## Project Goals
Ultimately, the goal of CocoaPods is to improve the engagement in, and CocoaPods aims to improve the engagement with, and discoverability
discoverability of, third party open-source libraries. The following list of, third party open-source Cocoa libraries. These
includes the project goals which have influenced, and continue to project goals influence and drive the design of CocoaPods:
drive the design of CocoaPods.
- Create and share libraries, and use them in your own projects,
- Being able to work in the system without creating extra work for without creating extra work for library authors. Integrate
library authors. Making it possible to maintain a simple transparent non-CocoaPods libraries and hack on your own fork of any
podspec outside of the library’s repository. CocoaPods library with a simple transparent `Podspec` standard.
- Not imposing any judgement of ‘correctness’ on how authors decide to - Allow library authors to structure their libraries however they like.
structure their library. - Save time for library authors by automating a lot of Xcode work not
- CocoaPods should not impose any specific requirements on source-code related to their libraries' functionality.
management systems. (Currently supported are git, svn, mercurial, bazaar, and - Support any source management system. (Currently supported are git,
various types of archives downloaded over HTTP.) svn, mercurial, bazaar, and various types of archives downloaded over HTTP.)
- Provide the ability to work in a distributed way, but also provide - Promote a culture of distributed collaboration on pods, but also provide
features only possible with a centralised solution to foster a community. features only possible with a centralised solution to foster a community.
- Being able to build tools on top of the system, including those typically - Build tools on top of the core Cocoa development system, including those
deployed to other operating systems, such as web-services. typically deployed to other operating systems, such as web-services.
- Providing opinionated and automated integration, but making that completely - Provide opinionated and automated integration, but make it completely
optional. It’s perfectly possible to manually integrate the CocoaPods optional. You may manually integrate your CocoaPods dependencies
Xcode project as you see fit, with or without a workspace. into your Xcode project as you see fit, with or without a workspace.
- Not depending on Apple to fix issues with Xcode or otherwise force - Solve everyday problems for Cocoa and Xcode developers.
authors to have to do a lot of Xcode work not related to their
library’s functionality.
## Sponsors ## Sponsors
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