Intern

Intern is a framework that does whatever I don't want to do. It's supposed to be used in iOS and mac projects to support development.

I will be periodically posting things about intern on my "blog.":http://yetanotherdevelopersblog.blogspot.com/

License

Intern has BSD license, so that you can do anything you want with it, even using on commercial applications.

The frameworks I use on Intern (including OCMock and GHUnit) both have their own licenses.

Targets

Intern has the following targets:

Intern:

It's the main framework. It should be usable in both Mac OS X and iOS applications, so this ideally target will never depend on any file that is platform dependent.

InternIOS:

iOS platform dependent files. At this moment, including references to Core Data and UIKit.

InternIOSTest:

GHUnit based files that should be used as a lib for testing iOS application.

UnitTests:

Intern GHUnit based unit tests.

Building

To build intern, just do: make clean && make && make test

If you want to build the zip package, run the script package.sh instead.

Using

Releases will be published on github as downloadable files. Each release will be published as a zip file with the following contents:

InternIOS:

A folder containing both the header files and libraries built for both the simulator and phone version of intern.

InternIOSTest:

A folder containing the headers and the library of InternIOSTest built for the simulator.

*.lproj:

Intern localization files, this should be copied to your project localization bundles. All Intern localization are done in the table Intern.

The easiest way to use intern is to execute prepare_for_intern.sh in the root of your project, passing a URL for the zip file as a parameter. Please refer to the file to learn how it works.

Contributing

If you want to contribute, you're welcome to do so. But I have a few requirements to accept your contribution:

1. The code you do must have automatic tests wherever possible.

2. It should build successfully from the command line (see building).

Failure to comply to this will result on me not accepting your code (I'll try to post a comment though whenever I don't). If you don't want to do it, I won't be mad if you clone to your own repository and commit on it using your own rules.

You can also contribute with suggestions, but I won't make any promises I'll implement them.