Feature: Package size

[vanlooverenkoen]

It would be nice to know what the actual size is of a package. And see this on pub.dev.

2 type of sizes would be interesting

• Size excl dependencies
• Size incl dependencies

[sigurdm]

I agree it would be nice to list the archive sizes on the "versions" page.

However remember that (given dart's treeshaking) the size affect on the actual produced app is largely unrelated to the size of the package.

Size incl dependencies

This is a lot harder to make useful - dependencies can often be shared. What would be the use case for this?

[vanlooverenkoen]

Fair point. But at least you have an idea of the size of the package without actually digging into the code. Just an idea

[sigurdm]

Maybe just listing the number of transitive dependencies of a package (in the default resolution) somewhere would be useful...

[isoos]

Maybe just listing the number of transitive dependencies of a package (in the default resolution) somewhere would be useful...

We have that in the scoring page, after the direct dependencies:

However, it changes over time (as the dependent packages may change) and it also depends on the SDK being used for the analysis.

[isoos]

Also: what size are we interested in? gzipped archive size, uncompressed total size (incl/excluding tests and other assets)? It can vary based on the needs and uses of a package.
I think we should expose the single archive file size, and maybe the total archive file size, but other than that, the analysis gets into a grey area.

[sigurdm]

For the version listing I would be interested in the compressed archive size.

Maybe the others are useful for some purposes. But yeah - a very grey area.