Change the pre-release range semantics.

lib/src/version_range.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2014, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 library pub_semver.src.version_range;
 
 import 'version.dart';
 import 'version_constraint.dart';
 import 'version_union.dart';
 
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   bool allows(Version other) {
     if (min != null) {
       if (other < min) return false;
       if (!includeMin && other == min) return false;
     }
 
     if (max != null) {
       if (other > max) return false;
       if (!includeMax && other == max) return false;
 
-      // If the max isn't itself a pre-release, don't allow any pre-release
-      // versions of the max.
+
+      // Disallow pre-release versions that have the same major, minor, and
+      // patch version as the max, but only if neither the max nor the min is a
+      // pre-release of that version. This ensures that "^1.2.3" doesn't include
+      // "2.0.0-pre", while also allowing both ">=2.0.0-pre.2 <2.0.0" and
+      // ">=1.2.3 <2.0.0-pre.7" to match "2.0.0-pre.5".
       //
-      // See: https://www.npmjs.org/doc/misc/semver.html
-      if (!includeMax &&
+      // It's worth noting that this is different than [NPM's semantics][]. NPM
+      // disallows **all** pre-release versions unless their major, minor, and
+      // patch numbers match those of a prerelease min or max. This ensures that
+      // no prerelease versions will ever be selected if the user doesn't
+      // explicitly allow them.
+      //
+      // [NPM's semantics]: https://www.npmjs.org/doc/misc/semver.html#prerelease-tags
+      //
+      // Instead, we ensure that release versions will always be preferred over
+      // prerelease versions by ordering the release versions first in
+      // [Version.prioritize]. This means that constraints like "any" or
+      // ">1.2.3" can still match prerelease versions if they're the only things
+      // available.
+      var maxIsReleaseOfOther = !includeMax &&
           !max.isPreRelease && other.isPreRelease &&
-          other.major == max.major && other.minor == max.minor &&
-          other.patch == max.patch) {
-        return false;
-      }
+          _equalsWithoutPreRelease(other, max);
+      var minIsPreReleaseOfOther = min != null && min.isPreRelease &&
+          _equalsWithoutPreRelease(other, min);
+      if (maxIsReleaseOfOther && !minIsPreReleaseOfOther) return false;
     }
 
     return true;
   }
 
+  bool _equalsWithoutPreRelease(Version version1, Version version2) =>
+      version1.major == version2.major &&
+          version1.minor == version2.minor &&
+          version1.patch == version2.patch;
+
   bool allowsAll(VersionConstraint other) {
     if (other.isEmpty) return true;
     if (other is Version) return allows(other);
 
     if (other is VersionUnion) {
       return other.constraints.every((constraint) => allowsAll(constraint));
     }
 
     if (other is VersionRange) {
       if (min != null) {
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     if (max != null) {
       if (min != null) buffer.write(' ');
       buffer.write(includeMax ? '<=' : '<');
       buffer.write(max);
     }
 
     if (min == null && max == null) buffer.write('any');
     return buffer.toString();
   }
 }