At the Cordova F2F, everyone seemed to agree that we should bring CocoaPods support to plugins as dependencies for iOS.
Cordova-android currently uses Gradle as a way to enable external dependency resolution for plugins using the framework tag. A suggestion about using the engine tag to fetch cocoapods-cli (mac) & NuGet (windows) followed by using the framework tag was discussed. The minutes[1] show Carlos, Shaz and Raghav as looking into the design. Someone should write up a proposal on cordova-discuss[2] and create the issues. Post them in this thread. This shouldn't take priority over cordova-ios 4 issues. [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MArKRmnLS052LBbhPxJF57_4ZivghOj8znWo5sTCkbU/edit?usp=sharing [2] https://github.com/cordova/cordova-discuss