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Closes #61246.

I open to doing this behind a flag, but given we decided already 5 years ago to do this, I'm leaning limiting this to an announcement (flutter-announce@) and just landing this cleanup.

Open to suggestions.

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The google3 testing is legitimate, we'd need to do a bit of cleanup work there as well.

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This seems reasonable to me, especially since it shouldn't break anyone.

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lgtm but please wait for @jwren's approval before merging.

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Chatted with @jwren offline - I agree there is some value to having hints about proper installation of IDEs (perhaps the original intent of this feature), but as you can see from issues such as #70216, we are not there - and we don't have any prioritization around investing more in these approaches.

The cost of reviving this feature is cheap (git revert ___) if we change our mind/priorities.

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2025-07-22 [email protected] Licenses cpp ignore whitespace (flutter/flutter#172512)
2025-07-22 [email protected] feat: start using the content aware hash for downloading artifacts (flutter/flutter#172552)
2025-07-22 [email protected] fix: correct typo in analysis_options.yaml comment (disabeling -> disabling) (flutter/flutter#170206)
2025-07-22 [email protected] Hide `flutter assemble` unless `--verbose` (flutter/flutter#172508)
2025-07-22 [email protected] Fix PopupMenuButton crashes when being hidden immediately (flutter/flutter#171970)
2025-07-22 [email protected] Add hitTestChildren to baseline-aligned stack (flutter/flutter#172485)
2025-07-22 [email protected] Roll Skia from 4aba494b8108 to eea1c33fbe84 (11 revisions) (flutter/flutter#172515)
2025-07-22 [email protected] Replaces legacy licenses check with licenses_cpp (flutter/flutter#172486)
2025-07-22 [email protected] Omit `w` (widget tree), `t` (render tree) from `flutter run --profile` `h` (flutter/flutter#172506)
2025-07-22 [email protected] Refactor checks for `--machine` (flutter/flutter#172504)
2025-07-22 [email protected] feat(IconButton): add property to specify a states controller (flutter/flutter#169821)
2025-07-21 98614782+auto-submit[bot]@users.noreply.github.com Reverts "feat: start using the content aware hash for downloading artifacts (#171927)" (flutter/flutter#172505)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Render Flutter in its own EGL context (flutter/flutter#172330)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Feat: Add momentary varient of CupertinoSlidingSegmentedControl (flutter/flutter#164262)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Roll Packages from cb8fef6 to 9c85e5e (10 revisions) (flutter/flutter#172479)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Wrap `ShutdownHook` calls to avoid crashing the tool (flutter/flutter#171917)
2025-07-21 [email protected] fix: macOS Mojave Crash on Flutter Desktop Startup (flutter/flutter#172282)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Roll Skia from 9587301e33bc to 4aba494b8108 (41 revisions) (flutter/flutter#172471)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Add CLA note to tree hygiene (flutter/flutter#172475)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Add `radioInnerRadius` to `RadioListTile` (flutter/flutter#171851)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Use baseUri always when doing a hot reload or hot restart (flutter/flutter#172271)
2025-07-21 [email protected] feat: start using the content aware hash for downloading artifacts (flutter/flutter#171927)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Add support for `/?` to alias to `--help` (flutter/flutter#172328)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Upgrade flutter_lints in project template pubspec.yaml files (flutter/flutter#172400)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Use `$dartSdkVersion` when creating "dummy" pubspec for `create_api_docs` (flutter/flutter#172327)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Adds `(defaults to ___)` when using `flutter config --help` (flutter/flutter#172329)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Add a warning on usage of `dartPluginClass: 'none'`. (flutter/flutter#172315)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Skip [tool] crash reporting on `--local-engine` (flutter/flutter#172326)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Remove IDE validation from `flutter doctor` (flutter/flutter#171924)

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azatech pushed a commit to azatech/flutter that referenced this pull request Jul 28, 2025
Closes flutter#61246.

I open to doing this behind a flag, but given we decided already 5 years
ago to do this, I'm leaning limiting this to an announcement
(`flutter-announce@`) and just landing this cleanup.

Open to suggestions.
vashworth pushed a commit to vashworth/packages that referenced this pull request Jul 30, 2025
flutter/flutter@70cdc0c...ee0cc66

2025-07-22 [email protected] Licenses cpp ignore whitespace (flutter/flutter#172512)
2025-07-22 [email protected] feat: start using the content aware hash for downloading artifacts (flutter/flutter#172552)
2025-07-22 [email protected] fix: correct typo in analysis_options.yaml comment (disabeling -> disabling) (flutter/flutter#170206)
2025-07-22 [email protected] Hide `flutter assemble` unless `--verbose` (flutter/flutter#172508)
2025-07-22 [email protected] Fix PopupMenuButton crashes when being hidden immediately (flutter/flutter#171970)
2025-07-22 [email protected] Add hitTestChildren to baseline-aligned stack (flutter/flutter#172485)
2025-07-22 [email protected] Roll Skia from 4aba494b8108 to eea1c33fbe84 (11 revisions) (flutter/flutter#172515)
2025-07-22 [email protected] Replaces legacy licenses check with licenses_cpp (flutter/flutter#172486)
2025-07-22 [email protected] Omit `w` (widget tree), `t` (render tree) from `flutter run --profile` `h` (flutter/flutter#172506)
2025-07-22 [email protected] Refactor checks for `--machine` (flutter/flutter#172504)
2025-07-22 [email protected] feat(IconButton): add property to specify a states controller (flutter/flutter#169821)
2025-07-21 98614782+auto-submit[bot]@users.noreply.github.com Reverts "feat: start using the content aware hash for downloading artifacts (#171927)" (flutter/flutter#172505)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Render Flutter in its own EGL context (flutter/flutter#172330)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Feat: Add momentary varient of CupertinoSlidingSegmentedControl (flutter/flutter#164262)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Roll Packages from cb8fef6 to 9c85e5e (10 revisions) (flutter/flutter#172479)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Wrap `ShutdownHook` calls to avoid crashing the tool (flutter/flutter#171917)
2025-07-21 [email protected] fix: macOS Mojave Crash on Flutter Desktop Startup (flutter/flutter#172282)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Roll Skia from 9587301e33bc to 4aba494b8108 (41 revisions) (flutter/flutter#172471)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Add CLA note to tree hygiene (flutter/flutter#172475)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Add `radioInnerRadius` to `RadioListTile` (flutter/flutter#171851)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Use baseUri always when doing a hot reload or hot restart (flutter/flutter#172271)
2025-07-21 [email protected] feat: start using the content aware hash for downloading artifacts (flutter/flutter#171927)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Add support for `/?` to alias to `--help` (flutter/flutter#172328)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Upgrade flutter_lints in project template pubspec.yaml files (flutter/flutter#172400)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Use `$dartSdkVersion` when creating "dummy" pubspec for `create_api_docs` (flutter/flutter#172327)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Adds `(defaults to ___)` when using `flutter config --help` (flutter/flutter#172329)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Add a warning on usage of `dartPluginClass: 'none'`. (flutter/flutter#172315)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Skip [tool] crash reporting on `--local-engine` (flutter/flutter#172326)
2025-07-21 [email protected] Remove IDE validation from `flutter doctor` (flutter/flutter#171924)

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ksokolovskyi pushed a commit to ksokolovskyi/flutter that referenced this pull request Aug 19, 2025
Closes flutter#61246.

I open to doing this behind a flag, but given we decided already 5 years
ago to do this, I'm leaning limiting this to an announcement
(`flutter-announce@`) and just landing this cleanup.

Open to suggestions.
mboetger pushed a commit to mboetger/flutter that referenced this pull request Sep 18, 2025
Closes flutter#61246.

I open to doing this behind a flag, but given we decided already 5 years
ago to do this, I'm leaning limiting this to an announcement
(`flutter-announce@`) and just landing this cleanup.

Open to suggestions.
korca0220 pushed a commit to korca0220/flutter that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2025
Closes flutter#61246.

I open to doing this behind a flag, but given we decided already 5 years
ago to do this, I'm leaning limiting this to an announcement
(`flutter-announce@`) and just landing this cleanup.

Open to suggestions.
engine-flutter-autoroll added a commit to engine-flutter-autoroll/packages that referenced this pull request Nov 12, 2025
lucaantonelli pushed a commit to lucaantonelli/flutter that referenced this pull request Nov 21, 2025
Closes flutter#61246.

I open to doing this behind a flag, but given we decided already 5 years
ago to do this, I'm leaning limiting this to an announcement
(`flutter-announce@`) and just landing this cleanup.

Open to suggestions.
DanTup added a commit to DanTup/flutter that referenced this pull request Mar 11, 2026
The IDE validators were removed in flutter#171924 but this is some leftover code and tests that remained that are not used anywhere.
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The IDE validators were removed in
#171924 but this is some leftover
code and tests that remained that are not used anywhere.

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