I have a OS specific binary in a zip file that I want to download for the OS that I'm running pants on. Then unzip it and run the binary with the adhoc_tool.. is that possible? In bazel I can do this with multiple http_archives and switching on the platform. Is environments something I can use here? 🤔

Is this inside a plugin? Or just using adhoc tool? Could you download it using the adhoc tool workflow and use it within the same pipeline?

I was going to start with adhoc tooling

So, I’m not sure off the top of my head if any of Pants’s download tooling gets exposed to adhoc tool, but what about using system_binaries to do it manually?

Oh I was thinking.. resource (http source (per platform?)) unzip with adhoc tool adhoc tool on unzipped file 🤔

Oh, maybe

I'm trying to make sense of this

If a per_platform is provided, represents a mapping from platform to http_source, where the platform is one of (linux_arm64, linux_x86_64, macos_arm64, macos_x86_64) and is resolved in the execution target. Each http_source value MUST have the same filename provided.

I can’t help out much as I haven’t used that functionality - but this discussion has opened my eyes to cleaning up a couple of other workflows, if what you’re doing works without a plugin. I’m just so far on the plugin train myself, just make little ones to make my life mildly easier

OOOh I was close https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/f14cdebb57669bdeb789dcc7f12e655e455ea8f3/build-support/bin/act/BUILD#L8-L36 here is almost what I was doing

file(
    name="downloaded-act",
    source=per_platform(
        macos_x86_64=http_source(
            url="<https://github.com/nektos/act/releases/download/v0.2.46/act_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz>",
            len=6289585,
            sha256="503bd4560afa3394fac87c404d4b34d1b422b8bb136b7f4ddaab27d08367700a",
            filename="act.tar.gz",
        ),
        macos_arm64=http_source(
            url="<https://github.com/nektos/act/releases/download/v0.2.46/act_Darwin_arm64.tar.gz>",
            len=6015670,
            sha256="6e5aae98192747d9430625cf0ac42e9fbcdbd9bc5e2558eb0297d0e2f9f2b2a8",
            filename="act.tar.gz",
        ),
        linux_x86_64=http_source(
            url="<https://github.com/nektos/act/releases/download/v0.2.46/act_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz>",
            len=6079499,
            sha256="19d5cdf534f892c1b62c32765c3982e2eb1334d66de4cc7e4a0e568cc0256f44",
            filename="act.tar.gz",
        ),
        linux_arm64=http_source(
            url="<https://github.com/nektos/act/releases/download/v0.2.46/act_Linux_arm64.tar.gz>",
            len=5544514,
            sha256="06418ca7430df409940812afe343c00118d7df889b11422232ff31a32a32b737",
            filename="act.tar.gz",
        ),
    ),
)

shell_command(
    name="extracted-act",
    command="tar -xf act.tar.gz",
    tools=["tar", "gzip"],
    execution_dependencies=[":downloaded-act"],
    output_directories=["act"],
)

file(
    name=".actrc",
    source=".actrc",
)

LGTM 😊