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Summary:
Many developers tend to create a lot of open-source projects for iOS. The only possible way to distribute those projects is by creating a static library targets. This is fine, but the process of setting things up in Xcode is very complicated and misleading for new-comers.

This issue, however, has been solved many years ago, in Mac OS X, by using the frameworks. The drag-and-drop process is very easy and the build time of the project is shorter, because frameworks contain pre-compiled binaries and those can be code-signed using the developemnt certificates. They also provide the Info.plist, and it is sometimes helpful.

The iOS SDK, however, doesn't support the framework targets. There is a tool () that re-enables this feature, but like many tweaks, it could lead to unexpected results.

Please, enable the developers to create frameworks for iOS deployment, they're so useful.

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The tool used to tweak Xcode to be able to create iOS frameworks: https://github.com/kstenerud/iOS-Universal-Framework

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Engineering has determined that your bug report is a duplicate of another issue and will be closed. 14982301