If you yourself are the author of a Pod and you develop it in concert with an app, you often find yourself wanting to make changes to the Pod while it is installed into the app, to be able to try out your changes right there.
Since CocoaPods assumes it has sole control of the Pods it checks out, you should not
change the CocoaPod directly, as that would mean that CocoaPods might discard your
changes and you could lose your changes on a thoughtless pod update
.
Instead, install your pod as a development pod.
Where you usually refer to your (non-development) Pod as