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seaneagan / den

A pubspec authoring tool.
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open ended question about den's scope #22

Closed devoncarew closed 9 years ago

devoncarew commented 9 years ago

Is it fair to say that den's scope is mostly related to pubspec.yaml file manipulation?

I ask because we have a need for reflecting on the packages installed on a user's system; basically parsing the .pubcache into a set of model objects. We're thinking about writing this ourselves, but don't want to duplicate effort. I didn't see anything in the codebase that looked similar to our needs, but wanted to double-check.

@pq @sethladd

sethladd commented 9 years ago

Friendly ping.

Looks like den is for manipulating a packagespec.yaml file.

In the meantime, we've created https://github.com/dart-lang/pub_cache

seaneagan commented 9 years ago

Yeah, I think den's functionality is restricted to pubspecs, and is more end-user facing (also through den_api), whereas pub_cache is not something end-users want to have to worry about as much. So I think it's good to have separate. pub_cache looks really useful for tooling stuff, thanks!