pantsbuild #pex

Channels

welcome

github-notifications

development

rough-minister-58256

06/22/2016, 8:22 PM

@faint-holiday-3863: just returning from vacation today - but, afaik no plans to publish standalone bazel pex rules.

rough-minister-58256

06/22/2016, 8:23 PM

in fact the only copy I’m aware of are the ones from the

Heron

project. IIRC, those were provided initially by the Bazel team to help bootstrap the project and then subsequently modified/extended by the Heron guys.

rough-minister-58256

06/22/2016, 8:23 PM

was that the ruleset that was your basis for starting this?

rough-minister-58256

06/22/2016, 8:28 PM

seems likely

faint-holiday-3863

06/22/2016, 8:57 PM

Yep! Definitely forked from the heron repo

faint-holiday-3863

06/22/2016, 9:01 PM

I did a few things that break compatibility with what’s in heron, but they’re minor and not critical

rough-minister-58256

06/22/2016, 9:02 PM

ah cool

rough-minister-58256

06/22/2016, 9:03 PM

I’d say go for it - but you might want to at least ping the Heron folks (iirc, this guy is currently maintaining the pex rules: https://github.com/billonahill) and possibly also the Bazel folks to see if they’d consider letting you host the rules under the

bazelbuild

team (ala the

go_rules

) for wider distribution/support/etc.

rough-minister-58256

06/22/2016, 9:04 PM

Bill is doing some follow-up work on their open sourcing of the rules, but assuming tehre’s some degree of parity it’d be cool to drop those from the Heron project in favor of depending on your rules.

faint-holiday-3863

06/22/2016, 9:04 PM

great, I would be happy to coordinate with billonahill before getting others using my fork

rough-minister-58256

06/22/2016, 9:04 PM

I’m sure he’d love the help - think he’s hacking on them solo right now.

faint-holiday-3863

06/22/2016, 9:05 PM

heh, here’s yet another time where I with github had a basic “send user a message” feature

faint-holiday-3863

06/22/2016, 9:05 PM

looks like https://twitter.com/billgraham is him

rough-minister-58256

06/22/2016, 9:06 PM

yup

rough-minister-58256

06/22/2016, 9:06 PM

fwict, seems most ideal to @mention them in a github issue

faint-holiday-3863

06/22/2016, 9:06 PM

oh yeah, that’s a better idea

famous-army-73652

06/22/2016, 11:00 PM

@faint-holiday-3863 and @rough-minister-58256 that would be awesome to have native pex support in bazel. What we have in heron was taken from yet another project who’s name I don’t recall. I’ve been looking at upgrading that to the latest pex version (I have an open pex issue I need to circle back on), but it would be best to have bazel/pex support which we could use instead. I’m on vacation this week but would be glad to test any bazel/pex integration you have.

👍 2

famous-army-73652

06/22/2016, 11:00 PM

+1 for working with the bazel folks to get it into bazel somehow

rough-minister-58256

06/22/2016, 11:41 PM

seems like at a minimum getting this into a shared project-agnostic repo would be boon for contributions from the various interested parties.

rough-minister-58256

06/22/2016, 11:42 PM

and getting it hosted by bazelbuild on github would improve its visibility/“officialness"

rough-minister-58256

06/22/2016, 11:42 PM

sounds like +1’s all around

rough-minister-58256

06/22/2016, 11:42 PM

🚢

faint-holiday-3863

06/23/2016, 12:10 AM

sweeeeeet

faint-holiday-3863

06/23/2016, 12:15 AM

the “reqs” thing (where pex downloads dependencies for you) is never going to work in bazel with sandboxing enabled, unfortunately

faint-holiday-3863

06/23/2016, 12:15 AM

I haven’t yet figured out how to write remote repository rules to take its place

rough-minister-58256

06/23/2016, 12:17 AM

ah, yeah - makes sense.

rough-minister-58256

06/23/2016, 12:17 AM

there is some rudimentary support for just passing pex a set of files to compose, but likely not first class enough to be viable w/ bazel’s model

rough-minister-58256

06/23/2016, 12:18 AM

I hope to work on that in pex soon tho - we’ve long talked about splitting resolve + builds

faint-holiday-3863

06/23/2016, 12:18 AM

That’s pretty similar to what these rules already do though - it lays out all the python files with a manifest and hands that to pex. I guess reqs and eggs are still handled separately.

rough-minister-58256

06/23/2016, 12:19 AM