fix: [dart_cli] Activating a cli project after updating files and version doesn't use the new version

[eripoll]

Description For some reason I can't figure out, for the past three days, no matter how I try to do it, as I am developing my dart_cli template-base CLI project, whenever I change anything in a file and activate the package, the newest version of the file is not the one I see when testing my cli.

Steps To Reproduce

1. dart pub global activate very_good_cli to get the latest version of very_good_cli

2. very_good create dart_cli sfdk_cli to create a brand new CLI project

3. dart pub get in the newly created project to get dependencies.

4. dart pub global activate --source path . to build and install the executable without changing anything in the project.

5. I get

   Resolving dependencies... 
   Downloading packages... 
   _fe_analyzer_shared 68.0.0 (72.0.0 available)
   analyzer 6.5.0 (6.7.0 available)
   macros 0.1.0-main.0 (0.1.2-main.4 available)
   very_good_analysis 5.1.0 (6.0.0 available)
   Got dependencies!
   4 packages have newer versions incompatible with dependency constraints.
   Try `dart pub outdated` for more information.
   Package sfdk_cli is currently active at path ".../sfdk_cli".

6. sfdk_cli --version

7. I get

   Building package executable... 
   Built sfdk_cli:sfdk_cli.
   0.0.1

   which is expected.

8. Change version to 0.0.2 in the pub spec.yaml file and dart pub global activate --source path . again

9. I get

   Resolving dependencies... 
   Downloading packages... 
   _fe_analyzer_shared 68.0.0 (72.0.0 available)
   analyzer 6.5.0 (6.7.0 available)
   macros 0.1.0-main.0 (0.1.2-main.4 available)
   very_good_analysis 5.1.0 (6.0.0 available)
   Got dependencies!
   4 packages have newer versions incompatible with dependency constraints.
   Try `dart pub outdated` for more information.
   Package sfdk_cli is currently active at path ".../sfdk_cli".
   Installed executable sfdk_cli.
   Activated sfdk_cli 0.0.2 at path ".../sfdk_cli".

   which is expected (except for the dependencies issues)

10. Run sfdk_cli --version again

11. I get 0.0.1

If I change anything in the files from the template, like just changing the help text from Print the current version. to Print the current version of the CLI., if I add any debugging instructions, NOTHING is being picked, as if the package is stuck to the previous version.

Cleaning the cache, deactivating, etc do not change a thing. I have also been unable to fix the dependency constraints issues...

Additional Context My dart version is Dart SDK version: 3.4.3 (stable) MacOS 14.5 (23F79)

Any thoughts? Can anyone reproduce? I've been going insane for the past couple days trying to figure this out...

[wolfenrain]

Thank you for bringing this to our attention @eripoll

I was able to reproduce this with the steps and also reproduced it with both the very_good_cli, dart_frog_cli and the mason_cli. None of them showed this issue in the past and I know that the last two haven't actively had changes to them that could impact this.

I suspect this is some strange pub issue, I haven't yet seen the issue on Windows while working on the Dart Frog CLI there but no matter what it will require some further investigation to find the true culprit.

[eripoll]

Good to hear you were able to reproduce! I was going bonkers here 😀 If I can be of some assistance, let me know!

I was able to reproduce this with the steps and also reproduced it with both the very_good_cli, dart_frog_cli and the mason_cli. None of them showed this issue in the past and I know that the last two haven't actively had changes to them that could impact this.

I suspect this is some strange pub issue, I haven't yet seen the issue on Windows while working on the Dart Frog CLI there but no matter what it will require some further investigation to find the true culprit.

[eripoll]

@wolfenrain It may be related: https://github.com/dart-lang/pub/issues/4295