Confusion around `pub get` prompt

Sometimes, after updating pubspec.yaml in IntelliJ, we just see the Dart banner prompting to update dependencies. The Flutter banner w/ slightly different appearance and wording (“Get Dependencies”) never displays.

My understanding is the vanilla Dart version of the command (pub get) is not exactly equivalent to flutter packages get which aside from the UX inconsistency, might be a more serious issue.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open pubspec.yaml, either in IntelliJ or in a text editor.
2. Make edits and switch to main.dart in IntelliJ.
3. Sometimes get Dart version of the “update dependencies” banner in IntelliJ, rather than the Flutter version (which is not exactly equivalent).

Version info

This behavior was seen on the I/O kiosks.

flutter doctor output (from non-kiosk environment):

[✓] Flutter (on Mac OS X 10.12.4 16E195, channel master)
    • Flutter at /Users/jackson/git/flutter
    • Framework revision 7154ac48db (4 hours ago), 2017-05-16 09:32:27 -0700
    • Engine revision 6fef702cfa
    • Tools Dart version 1.23.0-dev.11.11

[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK 25.0.3)
    • Android SDK at /Users/jackson/Library/Android/sdk/
    • Platform android-25, build-tools 25.0.3
    • ANDROID_HOME = /Users/jackson/Library/Android/sdk/
    • Java binary at: /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
    • Java version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_112-release-b06)

[✓] iOS toolchain - develop for iOS devices (Xcode 8.3.1)
    • Xcode at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
    • Xcode 8.3.1, Build version 8E1000a
    • ios-deploy 1.9.1
    • CocoaPods version 1.0.1

[✓] Android Studio (version 2.3)
    • Android Studio at /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents
    • Gradle version 3.2
    • Java version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_112-release-b06)

[✓] IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (version 2016.3.4)
    • Dart plugin version 163.13137
    • Flutter plugin version 12.1

[✓] Connected devices
    • iPhone 7 Plus • 5F90A4C3-6F80-446A-88CB-5394635BF8EF • ios • iOS 10.3 (simulator)

@collinjackson

[devoncarew]

I very much hope (and assume) that 2017.1 is what’s on the kiosks. That flutter doctor output above was not from a kiosk machine, but from Elaine’s local machine.

+1 to updating flutter doctor to having a min version of 2017.1.

[devoncarew]

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (version 2016.3.4)

@LarkAscending, you’ll definitely want to update your local IntelliJ - 2016.3 is older than we want - we want 2017.1 now as our minimum.