Package Resolution Configuration file (.packages)?

[Rich Eakin]

Just saw that the WebStorm 11 EAP up'ed their dart support, including a note saying "support for package resolution configuration file (.packages) introduced in Dart SDK 1.12". Is there any more information on what this .packages file is or does? 

Thanks,

Rich

[Harry Terkelsen]

It's a new way of resolving 'package:xxx' imports. The DEP is here: https://github.com/lrhn/dep-pkgspec/blob/master/DEP-pkgspec.md

It's mostly a tooling thing, so it should be a transparent change for most Dart users.

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[Bob Nystrom]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 1:16 PM, 'Harry Terkelsen' via Dart Misc <mi...@dartlang.org> wrote:

It's mostly a tooling thing, so it should be a transparent change for most Dart users.

It will be very visible in that in a couple of releases (1.13?), all of those annoying "packages" directories no one ever liked will go away. :)

- bob

[Kasper Peulen]

Those packages directories are already gone for me in webstorm 11. It seems to do `pub get --no-package-symlinks` by default.

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[Rich Eakin]

Oh, very cool - I like it.  Yes it was becoming tedious having to .gitignore all those package directories, happy there is a more robust solution.

cheers,

Rich