Kin is a minimalistic tool to check whether your project.pbxproj file is correct.
Have you ever found yourself undoing a merge due to a broken Xcode build? Then Kin is your tool. It will parse your project configuration file and detect errors.
Kin is just a syntax checker built with ANTLR 4 with a very thin layer to be usable from command line. On the fly syntax checking integration for text editors and IDEs is a work in progress (see the "Text editor/IDE integration" section below).
Install Kin with your favorite python package manager.
Using pip
pip install kin
Using easy_install
easy_install kin
Once installed, use Kin from your Xcode project directory. Kin will automatically detect where your project configuration is located and check whether it is correct.
$> kin
CORRECT
If there is an error in your configuration file, Kin will return the offending line and a short description of the problem found.
$> kin
ERROR: line 400:3 mismatched input ')' expecting 'inputPaths'
Optionally, you can provide the location of your project.pbxproj to Kin:
$> kin myProject/myProject.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
CORRECT
The following text editor and IDE integration packages are available:
Emacs
Feel free to add any useful feature to Kin, we will be glad to improve it with your help.
Keep in mind that your PRs must be validated by Travis-CI. Please, run your tests locally with ./tests/tester.py before submiting your code.
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