In addition to pub run, which is for running executables in your package or its dependencies, pub (as of 1.6) now supports "global" packages. These let you run executables when you're not currently inside any package.

They are exposed through a new pub "global" command:

$ pub global activate foo [constraint]

This picks the latest version of foo that matches [constraint](or any if omitted), and makes it the active global version of foo. It will download foo and its dependencies if necessary. If foo is already active and the current version meets the constraint, it does nothing.

$ pub global deactivate foo

This makes foo no longer active.

$ pub global run foo bar

This runs bin/bar.dart from the current global version of foo. (Note: I'll probably be changing the syntax here to "global run foo:bar" soon to match pub run.

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