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This is really in the area of package handling.

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I don't believe this is a pub issue. This is just related to the --package-root argument that the standalone VM supports directly. Is pub involved here somehow?

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Issue #8535 has been merged into this issue.

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Bumping a couple of labels and changing the title.

This is an issue for
--package-root
--snapshot
--coverage_dir

(Didn't try profile_dir, but I'm guessing it's the same)

Using --coverage_dir=/Users/Kevin/tmp works fine
Using --coverage_dir=~/tmp ends up with
Failed to write coverage file: ~/tmp/dart-cov-22180-188642295.json

We have the same problem in commands written in Dart, too (docgen, etc).

But these have to be fixed in the VM, I'm guessing

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FYI: related feature request to make this easy in Dart apps - https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=18466

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Is this something we want in the VM?

The reason I ask, is that if we do, we should make it available through dart:io as well.

If not, I'll close https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=18466 with a suggestion to do this in a pkg.

Basically, I don't want it in dart:io, unless there is a really good reason (such as a VM use case).

I think the case for #­18466 is that there are likely platform-specific methods for resolving these paths that will be tough to reproduce accurately in a package.

The case for this bug -- #­2930 -- is for the dart command line to act like other command line apps

muenster[sdk] java -classpath /tmp:~/tmp/java Bug2930
Error: Could not find or load main class Bug2930
muenster[sdk] echo $HOME
/usr/local/google/home/iposva
muenster[sdk] java -classpath /tmp:$HOME/tmp/java Bug2930
Hello!