Upgrading from dcli

DCli was originally named DShell.

If you have an existing DShell application we provide an upgrade script which can upgrade your DShell based project to DCli.

upgrade to dcli

Start by installing DCli:

pub global activate dcli

dcli install

upgrading a project

Once the install completes change into the root of your project.

Firstly make certain your project is backed up or commited (and pushed) to git in case anything goes wrong.

cd myproject

# make certain you project compiles first and fix any problems.
pub upgrade

dshell_upgrade

Your project is now upgraded.

Check that it is still working and then commit the changes.

If you need to, its quite safe to run dshell_upgrade multiple times.

the big upgrade

If you are sure that all of your projects are backed up and in a state where they compile then you can just run dshell_upgrade from the top of your directory tree and it will upgrade all .dart and pubspec.yaml files that it finds.