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Don't show a separate notification for every package when the pub get/pub upgrade prompts trigger many invocations #5740
Description
Describe the bug
Screen.Recording.2025-10-07.at.1.11.38.PM.mov
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- open flutter/packages/packages in vscode
- click
pub upgrade - See a notification appear for every package as it upgrades.
Expected behavior
Any of the following design patterns
- One notification the whole time
- One notification the whole time with progress bar or text
- One notification at the end
- No notification
Please complete the following information:
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Workspace Environment
Dart Code extension: 3.120.0
Flutter extension: 3.120.0 (activated)
App: Visual Studio Code
App Host: desktop
Version: mac 1.104.3
Workspace type: Dart, Flutter (LSP)
Workspace name: packages
Dart (3.10.0-268.0.dev): /Users/reidbaker/flutter-work/bin/cache/dart-sdk
Flutter (3.37.0-1.0.pre-386): /Users/reidbaker/flutter-work (macOS (darwin/macos))
Output from 'dart info'
/Users/reidbaker/flutter-work/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin/dart info
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General info
- Dart 3.10.0-268.0.dev (dev) (Wed Oct 1 09:03:20 2025 -0700) on "macos_arm64"
- on macos / Version 15.7 (Build 24G222)
- locale is en
Process info
| Memory | CPU | Elapsed time | Command line |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 MB | 0.0% | 01:59 | dart devtools --machine --allow-embedding --dtd-uri ws:/PJfjwGEs7JM= |
| 12034 MB | 0.0% | 01:59 | dart language-server --protocol=lsp --client-id=VS-Code --client-version=3.120.0 |
| 19 MB | 0.0% | 01:59 | dart tooling-daemon --machine |
| 79 MB | 0.9% | 01:59 | flutter_tools.snapshot daemon |
Output from 'flutter doctor'
/Users/reidbaker/flutter-work/bin/flutter doctor -v
[✓] Flutter (Channel main, 3.37.0-1.0.pre-386, on macOS 15.7 24G222 darwin-arm64, locale en) [1,032ms]
• Flutter version 3.37.0-1.0.pre-386 on channel main at /Users/reidbaker/flutter-work
• Upstream repository [email protected]:flutter/flutter.git
• Framework revision de64eed980 (5 days ago), 2025-10-02 11:37:33 -0400
• Engine revision 65aca3661b
• Dart version 3.10.0 (build 3.10.0-268.0.dev)
• DevTools version 2.50.0
• Feature flags: enable-web, enable-linux-desktop, enable-macos-desktop, enable-windows-desktop, enable-android, enable-ios, cli-animations, enable-native-assets, omit-legacy-version-file, enable-lldb-debugging
[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 36.0.0) [1,062ms]
• Android SDK at /Users/reidbaker/Library/Android/sdk/
• Emulator version 36.1.9.0 (build_id 13823996) (CL:N/A)
• Platform android-36, build-tools 36.0.0
• ANDROID_HOME = /Users/reidbaker/Library/Android/sdk/
• Java binary at: /opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@17/libexec/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
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• Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment Homebrew (build 17.0.15+0)
• All Android licenses accepted.
[!] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS (Xcode 16.2) [435ms]
• Xcode at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
• Build 16C5032a
✗ Unable to get list of installed Simulator runtimes.
✗ CocoaPods not installed.
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Without CocoaPods, plugins will not work on iOS or macOS.
For more info, see https://flutter.dev/to/platform-plugins
For installation instructions, see https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/getting-started.html#installation
[✓] Chrome - develop for the web [5ms]
• Chrome at /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
[✓] Connected device (2 available) [5.8s]
• macOS (desktop) • macos • darwin-arm64 • macOS 15.7 24G222 darwin-arm64
• Chrome (web) • chrome • web-javascript • Google Chrome 141.0.7390.55
[✓] Network resources [871ms]
• All expected network resources are available.
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Activity
DanTup commentedon Oct 7, 2025
Yeah, we should handle this better. The notification is shown inside the "pub get" command, and we're just invoking that for each project.
I think we should aim for a single notification that shows the name (or relative path) for each package as it runs.
[-]Vs code dart extension sends repeated notifications after clicking `pub upgrade` on flutter/packages.[/-][+]Don't show a separate notification for every package when the `pub get`/`pub upgrade` prompts trigger many invocations[/+]DanTup commentedon Oct 9, 2025
There was another implication of how this worked - you couldn't cancel the batch, because it would only cancel one run and you'd then frustratingly have to keep hitting Cancel on them all 😔
I'm updated this so we create a single notification at the top level and pass it down when we execute for multiple projects:
batch_progress.mp4
Improve batch execution of commands