Make installing tab "smarter" about packages w/ binaries

[kevmoo]

URL: https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/webdev#-installing-tab-

webdev has no libraries to use. It does have an executable defined in pubspec.yaml, though.

Consider adding pub global activate instructions for such packages.

See also
https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/peanut
https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/pubviz
https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/stagehand

[isoos]

This seemed to be a low-hanging fruit, but it turns out it has a lot of edge-cases, with the following parameters:

• with/without libraries
• with/without executables
• runs on Flutter/runs only on Flutter

How would you display the install tab when there are libraries and executables? What if it is Flutter-only?

[kevmoo]

How would you display the install tab when there are libraries and executables? What if it is Flutter-only?

🤷‍♂️

Maybe just show both? (When we talk about executables, we mean packages with an executables: section in their pubspec, right?

[isoos]

Maybe just show both?

Yeah, but what should be the wording? We already have a section of "depend on it", and also "install it", while global activate would be another installing, sometimes with library use, sometimes without it.

When we talk about executables, we mean packages with an executables: section in their pubspec, right?

Yes.

[jakobr-google]

Maybe just show both, using sub-headings:

'Use this package as a library'

'Use this package as an executable'