Null Safety Migration

[TimWhiting]

Null Safety Migration

[TimWhiting]

By the way crypto was just published, so this should be unblocked

[AKushWarrior]

NNBD migration for this package should be pretty easy since it's mostly methods. I can take a crack at it if it's not already been done.

[passsy]

0.6.0 has been published with nullsafety enabled.

I'm sorry for the delay to actually publish this nnbd version. While migrating we noticed that other packages, especially package:collection started shipping their own extension functions. Those, in the long-term, will make dartx obsolete.

The big question was, whether we want to expose those extension methods through dartx, as we do with the time and characters package. But when I tried I ran into multiple naming conflicts, which would 1. be a breaking change, 2. could cause many more breaking changes down the line when more extensions get added.

Future

I'm missing a long-term goal for this project and a clear scope for 1.0. That's why merging becomes slower. The more methods we add, the harder it gets to prevent conflicts. If we blindly add everything, this project becomes a mess of methods nobody actually uses (remember quiver?). And we have no way of telling which methods are actually used.

For the time being, I can only encourage everyone here to contribute new extensions to specialized packages with a clear scope.

[passsy]

It would be awesome if you could also reach out to those projects :)

[simc]

I created a nnbd branch. We're just waiting on some transitive dependencies now.

[shinayser]

@leisim Time has been already updated to NNDB. Seems that only crypto is missing, right?

EDIT: I just checked out and seems that crypto has been already migrated (dart-lang/crypto#105), but hasn't been pushed to pub. It could still be imported locally.

[atreeon]

Hi, is there an update? I think the dependencies have been updated now?

[TimWhiting]

@leisim @passsy
Any idea when you will merge the nnbd support? Seems like the only thing that needs to happen is a merge / publish cycle.

[shinayser]

@leisim @passsy guys,why don't you add another admin to the project? Seems that you guys can't spend much time improving, accepting PRs, upgrading libs, etc... The project is starting to look a little "abandoned"
If there is anything we can do for you, please just ask!

[shinayser]

Guys @leisim @passsy ? March 3 is about the corner. You got any news?