Don't understand the new pod install command.

[compojoom]

Hi guys,

I was on version 2.x and decided I'll update to version 4. I read the changelog and saw that there is a new pod install command. Here is the pull request for it:
#48

The source code of the command is here: https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-circleci-orb/blob/6507129208dda0db06e0ddcd1a3ee61fce287e78/src/commands/pod_install.yml

I was wondering why it doesn't have any cache and why it is supposed to be faster?

Previously I was using this:

  pod_install:
    description: Install POD dependencies
    steps:
      - restore_cache:
          keys:
            - mobileapp-pods-v1-{{ checksum "./ios/Podfile.lock" }}-{{ .Environment.CACHE_VERSION }}

      - run:
          name: Install pods
          command: "cd ios && pod install && cd .."
      - save_cache:
          key: mobileapp-pods-v1-{{ checksum "./ios/Podfile.lock" }}-{{ .Environment.CACHE_VERSION }}
          paths:
            - ./ios/Pods

But decided to swap my code for the pod install command.
Now the pod install command in my project takes around 7mins. Where in the past (due to having cache most probobly) it was around 60s..

So why aren't we caching the pod dependencies now?

[vonovak]

@compojoom I added it because I felt like it'd be a useful command, and if done right, many could benefit from it. Indeed, I'm not a circle ci expert because I don't use circle outside of OSS - so that's why the caching is not there, I just don't know circle well enough. Started to use it very recently.

If you're willing to, would you improve the command by the caching logic? Thanks

[compojoom]

@vonovak all right. No problem. I'll add the caching. I thought I was missing something. Thanks for the reply!

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