"pub init"

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/40635?v=3" align="left" width="96" height="96"hspace="10"> Issue by radicaled
Originally opened as dart-lang/sdk#20701

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I think it would be a great addition to Pub if it supported a "pub init" command which generated a Pubspec file and populated it with some default settings for quick editing.

Right now using Dart Editor is the only way to get a "template" pubspec.yaml file.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2108507?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by dgrove

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Added Area-Pub, Triaged labels.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/188?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by nex3

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Added Duplicate label.
Marked as being merged into #34.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/40635?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by radicaled

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I don't think these are duplicate issues.

I'm asking for a skeletal pubspec.yaml template; #­2432 appears to be about generating an entire application directory structure.

This is the equivalent of "npm init" -- generates the package file spec and nothing else.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/188?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by nex3

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Issue #34 covers all sorts of scaffold generation, and the resolution is the same: it's something that would be better handled by an external tool.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/40635?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by radicaled

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I kinda feel like its not the same, since pubspec.yaml is necessary for pub to function, and a blank or non-existent pubspec.yaml isn't valid. Scaffolding a basic application seems like its on another level.

But it's fine the way it is, I guess.