Hi, newbie question: Is there a way to manage external binaries/tools without plugins in a similar fashion to what ExternalTool allows for plugins?

For which language?

I am looking for a way to download and deploy binaries from external sources. Ideally with all the goodies that ExternalTool has, like platform dependent locations, checksum check etc.

`file`'s

source

supports

per_platform

and

http_source

that can do that downloading: https://www.pantsbuild.org/stable/reference/targets/file#source Here's an example from the Pants repo: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/9dc2fb15bc52bc348c70c8a6082943822b4d4435/3rdparty/tools/act/BUILD#L8-L36 The rest of that file might be interesting too, in terms of extracting and setting up the

act

binary

Thanks, this is pretty much what I had been looking for.