Folding errors passed calls prevented the static reflector from
begin able to ignore errors in annotations it doesn't know as
the call to the unknown annotation was elided from the metadata.
Fixes: #21273
PR Close#21708
The errors produced when error were encountered while interpreting the
content of a directive was often incomprehencible. With this change
these kind of error messages should be easier to understand and diagnose.
PR Close#20459
Also adds auto upgrade from lower version based
on the .d.ts file (e.g. from version 3 to 4).
This is needed as we are now also capturing type aliases
in metadata files (and we rely on this),
see 6e3498ca8e6752c0d59c19c89e3211744e80f6d8.
- temporarily keeps the old sources under packages/tsc-wrapped
until the build scripts are changed to use compiler-cli everywhere.
- removes the compiler options `disableTransformerPipeline` that was introduced
in a previous beta of Angular 5, i.e. the transformer based compiler
is now always enabled.
PR Close#18966
