Unable to use the latest riverpod in flutter version lower than 3.16

[kefasjw]

Describe the bug

Riverpod uses the collection package version ^1.18.0, but flutter pins the collection package version to 1.17.2. Therefore, the latest stable riverpod (2.5.1) can't be used in flutter version lower than 3.16

To Reproduce

• Install flutter version 3.13 or lower
• Add flutter_riverpod: ^2.5.1 dependency to a pubspec.yaml
• Run flutter pub get

And this error shows up:

Note: collection is pinned to version 1.17.2 by flutter from the flutter SDK.
See https://dart.dev/go/sdk-version-pinning for details.


Because every version of flutter from sdk depends on collection 1.17.2 and riverpod >=2.5.1 <3.0.0-dev.0 depends on collection ^1.18.0, flutter from sdk is
  incompatible with riverpod >=2.5.1 <3.0.0-dev.0.
And because flutter_riverpod >=2.5.1 <3.0.0-dev.0 depends on riverpod 2.5.1, flutter from sdk is incompatible with flutter_riverpod >=2.5.1 <3.0.0-dev.0.
So, because flutter_playground depends on both flutter from sdk and flutter_riverpod 2.5.1, version solving failed.

Expected behavior
flutter riverpod 2.5.1 should be able to be used in older flutter version lower than 3.16. Lower version of collection package should be used instead of 1.18.0.

[rrousselGit]

That's low priority for me. I'd rather have up-to-date dependencies than dealing with broad version ranges.

You can use dependency_overrides to bypass this.

[rrousselGit]

Also Riverpod is soon going to require Dart 3 anyway, which requires collection 1.17

So I don't think that's realistic