:wave: — hello, new to pants build — pretty excite...
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freezing-lamp-12123
07/02/2022, 6:54 AM👋 — hello, new to pants build — pretty excited about a tool that may just deliver on the promise of bazel tooling without all the awkwardness of starlark and WORKSPACE woes 😆 … i was surprised to not find any general/core handling of external repositories though — is that uncommon with pants? something for vendoring third party code via either remote archives, or git repositories, without having to resort to a custom plugin to provide something to get started?
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bitter-ability-32190
07/02/2022, 11:45 AMSurprisingly it's just not something that's come up that often for us yet. The closest thing you'll get is on Pants 2.13 you can have assets (files/resources) be declared as an http URL.
Pants is pluggable, open to contributions, and primed and ready for such a feature. So all it takes is a good use-case and a willing volunteer 😉
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bitter-ability-32190
07/02/2022, 11:46 AMAlthough, there might also be in-ecosystem support. For instance in Python the lockfile support VCS and URI requirements
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happy-kitchen-89482
07/02/2022, 12:08 PMHi @freezing-lamp-12123, which language(s) are you working with? As @bitter-ability-32190 mentioned, this is well-supported for Python via standard mechanisms, but I'm less familiar with the JVM side of things.
happy-kitchen-89482
07/02/2022, 12:11 PMI suspect this would require some work, but not a frightening amount...
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freezing-lamp-12123
07/02/2022, 2:33 PMwell, mostly it was wrt to building internal tools — i’m trying to wrap my head around a bunch of concepts, and the “pants way” if one exists
it’s always been painful to bootstrap projects locally which depend on binaries built/pulled from private/internal sources
freezing-lamp-12123
07/02/2022, 2:35 PMi’m trying to understand subsystems — which i think makes sense for plumbing through “tool specific” config, such as specifically scoped tokens for access management
freezing-lamp-12123
07/02/2022, 2:36 PMin most cases we basically want to pull a given github release asset for a specific version, but still allow for programatically updating all sources, when there are new releases for instance
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bitter-ability-32190
07/02/2022, 2:51 PMIf you're pulling a specific binary release from GitHub you'll likely find success in our upcoming http feature I mentioned. We haven't modeled multi-platform, though.
The more specific you can be with your use case (a detailed GitHub issue is great) the better the community can model features for you ☺️
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freezing-lamp-12123
07/02/2022, 6:35 PMdoes the upcoming http feature also provide a mechanism for auth? if so that would probably enough for our use case — but i’d be happy to describe more in detail for our use case
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bitter-ability-32190
07/02/2022, 6:48 PMI don't think it would. And I don't even think env vars would work 😞
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freezing-lamp-12123
07/02/2022, 6:59 PMthen i have a problem 😂
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bitter-ability-32190
07/02/2022, 7:01 PMFile that detailed issue, and that'll immortalize the request 👍
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freezing-lamp-12123
07/02/2022, 7:02 PMneato — do you just want on github?
freezing-lamp-12123
07/02/2022, 7:03 PMi’ll likely get to it early next week though 😃
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bitter-ability-32190
07/02/2022, 7:04 PMYes please! Also you should be able to accomplish this in a plugin, albeit we don't want users to HAVE to write plugins. Our plugin API isn't stable (so we can move fast) and has a learning curve.
bitter-ability-32190
07/02/2022, 7:04 PMThat being said we're happy to help you on your in-repo plugin if this is a deal breaker
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freezing-lamp-12123
07/02/2022, 7:19 PMi don’t think it would be — but a documented solution/example could perhaps help many others getting started as well
freezing-lamp-12123
07/04/2022, 6:39 PMalrighty, issue filed — let me know if more details is desired 😃
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busy-vase-39202
07/05/2022, 5:36 PMThank you!
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