Pub Workspace: only require paths at workspace level?

[jtmcdole]

In flutter/engine/pull/53539, you see in sub-workspace yaml files we have to specify the paths: flutter/engine/tools/engine_tool/pubspec.yaml:

• litetest and process_fakes both have relative paths.
• but they are both listed at the root workspace.

To make the sub-workspace yaml files more concise (and easier to maintain), can we leave the path: out of the sub files?

[sigurdm]

It is a bit unclear what you are trying.

But perhaps you can leave the path out from the sub-package, and only define it in a dependency_override in the root.

[matanlurey]

The idea we had was:

# root/pubspec.yaml
dependencies:
  repo_private_dependency:
    path: tools/pkg/repo_private_dependency

# root/tools/pkg/some_other_dep/pubspec.yaml
dependencies:
  repo_private_dependency:

That doesn't work, because repo_private_dependency is not found on pub.dev.

[sigurdm]

Try

# root/pubspec.yaml
dependency_overrides:
  repo_private_dependency:
    path: tools/pkg/repo_private_dependency

# root/tools/pkg/some_other_dep/pubspec.yaml
dependencies:
  repo_private_dependency:

[jtmcdole]

Try

# root/pubspec.yaml
dependency_overrides:
  repo_private_dependency:
    path: tools/pkg/repo_private_dependency

# root/tools/pkg/some_other_dep/pubspec.yaml
dependencies:
  repo_private_dependency:

If I check out the linked PR; move litetest to dependency_overrides at the workspace level and remove the path from the sub-project, it appears to work.