make pub-build robust to accept transformer code with bugs or errors

[sigmundch]

I saw this error as a result of issue #14205:

Because pub tries to load 'polymer.dart', the vm gives this error and pub-build fails immediately:

IsolateSpawnException: 'The built-in library 'dart:html' is not available on the stand-alone VM.
'http://127.0.0.1:45866/packages/polymer/polymer.dart': Error: line 44 pos 1: library handler failed
import 'dart:html';
^
'file:///tmp/pub_DuxgFe/runInIsolate.dart': Error: line 1 pos 1: library handler failed
import "http://127.0.0.1:45866/packages/polymer/polymer.dart";import 'dart:async';
^'

[nex3]

Making pub behave in a way that's any better than crash here would require infrastructure for reloading transformers after the initialization, which isn't planned for the near future.

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[munificent]

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[nex3]

Marked this as being blocked by #19163.

[kasperl]

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[kasperl]

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[munificent]

I'm going to close this because we don't have any plans to change this behavior any time soon. If we do eventually support reloading transformers, this will get fixed implicitly by that.

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[DartBot]

This issue has been moved to dart-lang/pub#675.