Why is `build_runner` now a non-dev dependency of `build_runner_core`?

[Rexios80]

This makes little sense. Shouldn't the "internal" file that is in build_runner be in build_runner_core? I have tooling that runs the build_runner if a project depends on it, but now every project that depends on build now transitively depends on build_runner.

[davidmorgan]

Yes, it needs cleaning up; I'm working on a release for https://github.com/dart-lang/build/issues/3977 as that is blocking quite a lot of work, then I'll work on the package structure.

Sorry about that.

In the meantime you could either:

• Pin to build_runner <2.5.0
• replace your check for a build_runner transitive dep with a check for specific generator packages

[davidmorgan]

With https://github.com/dart-lang/build/pull/4177 build no longer depends on build_runner_core, so I think that will fix your issue. Please reopen if not.

I'll continue to clean up the packages, I think I will probably merge all the "runtime" stuff into build_runner.