I don't think I've ever said "hello" here, so: Hello everyone! 👋 I'm considering reviving this PR from a year ago. It introduces

ArchiveSubsystem

that essentially holds search paths for unpacking tools like

unzip

and

tar

. That subsystem should probably go into

core/util_rules/system_binaries.py

. Does anyone have any input on this issue? Does the general approach sound reasonable? Eventually, I'm hoping to make

pants

usable on unmodified NixOS systems where such tools can be put in

PATH

but won't usually be available in the directories listed in the default search path that

pants

uses for bootstrapping. For a preliminary pass on that I would also need to at least give

bash

a similar treatment,. Probably there are other tools that I've forgotten now, as well. I think the relevant issue here would be https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/14492. Has anything changed about the approach since then?

I think that's still a valid approach, but the relevant options should probably be Environment-aware: https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.15/docs/environments

👀

I was doing that as prework for this Pr :) centralize binary discovery to one file, and probably one subsystem