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Chloe Stefantsova 09a156bb2d [cfe] Make VariableBase.context independent from VariableBase.parent
Previously the getter VariableBase.context was redirecting to
VariableBase.parent, effectively requiring a change of the ownership
over the variable. This CL makes VariableBase.context a field of
VariableBase, allowing for the previously existing ownership structure
of the AST tree nodes.

The change allows to avoid workarounds for the existing
ownership-restoring logic, such as the assignments to the `parent`
pointer made in the constructors of the AST nodes and their
`transformChildren` and `transformOrRemoveChildren` methods.

Part of https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/61572

Change-Id: I307c9d2b23c8201f8d7d2a100acf9fb8f3af2572
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/494441
Commit-Queue: Chloe Stefantsova <cstefantsova@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Johnni Winther <johnniwinther@google.com>
2026-05-12 00:08:47 -07:00
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Package validation

The packages in pkg/ are automatically validated on the LUCI CI bots. The validation is largely done by the tools/package_deps package; it can be tested locally via:

dart tools/package_deps/bin/package_deps.dart

Packages which are published

There are several packages developed in pkg/ which are published to pub. Validation of these packages is particularly important because the pub tools are not used for these packages during development; we get our dependency versions from the DEPS file. It's very easy for the dependencies specified in a package's pubspec file to get out of date wrt the packages and versions actually used.

In order to better ensure we're publishing correct packages, we validate some properties of the pubspec files on our CI system. These validations include:

  • that the dependencies listed in the pubspec are used in the package
  • that all the packages used by the source are listed in the pubspec
  • that we don't use relative path deps to pkg/ or third_party/ packages

Packages which are not published

For packages in pkg/ which we do not intend to be published, we put the following comment in the pubspec.yaml file:

# This package is not intended for consumption on pub.dev. DO NOT publish.
publish_to: none

These pubspecs are still validated by the package validation tool. The contents are more informational as the pubspecs for these packages are not consumed by the pub tool or ecosystem.

We validate:

  • that the dependencies listed in the pubspec are used in the package
  • that all the packages used by the source are listed in the pubspec
  • that a reference to a pkg/ package is done via a relative path dependency

Adding new packages

Run gclient sync to re-generate .dart_tool/package_config.json after adding a new package.

Testing packages

Currently dart test can't be used to run the tests, use test.py as usual. E.g. the command ./tools/test.py -n...<path> runs all tests with prefix <path>.