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sgon00
sgon00

Reputation: 5777

How to set to use the latest version of a package in pubspec.yaml?

How to set to use the latest version of a package in pubspec.yaml for Dart projects?

Can I do something like:

dev_dependencies:
  build_runner: latest
  build_web_compilers: latest

in pubspec.yaml

Upvotes: 7

Views: 5990

Answers (1)

jamesdlin
jamesdlin

Reputation: 90015

See the version constraints documentation for how package version constraints can be specified.

There is no direct way to use the "latest" version of a package, but that is not a good idea since a later version of a package might not be backward compatible.

You instead can do:

some_package: ">= 1.2.3 < 2.0.0"

since packages should use semantic versioning and change the major version number to indicate backward-incompatible changes.

You also can use:

some_package: "^1.2.3"

to indicate package versions expected to be compatible with 1.2.3 (but this is based on semantic versioning conventions and is equivalent to ">= 1.2.3 < 2.0.0".

Finally, if you really don't care about package versions at all, you could specify an unrealistically high maximum version:

some_package: ">= 1.2.3 < 9999999.0.0"

or disable version constraints entirely:

some_package: any

Upvotes: 7

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