Question that came up on the REAPI Working Group c...
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fast-nail-55400
04/13/2021, 2:52 PMQuestion that came up on the REAPI Working Group call earlier: What do we think of the part of the spec that makes output paths be relative to the working directory? cc @hundreds-father-404 @average-vr-56795
fast-nail-55400
04/13/2021, 2:54 PMThere is some push to make the spec be that output paths are relative to the input root, and not the working directory. I would agree with that. Thoughts?
fast-nail-55400
04/13/2021, 2:56 PM(And I can’t recall off the top of my head what the current semantic in Pants is for it.)
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hundreds-father-404
04/13/2021, 4:15 PMI think we're implementing as relative to the input root
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average-vr-56795
04/13/2021, 4:54 PMStrongly in favour (of changing it)
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average-vr-56795
04/13/2021, 4:55 PMThe spec'd semantics are weird
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fast-nail-55400
04/13/2021, 5:32 PMEspecially since I misread the spec and got it wrong. :)
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average-vr-56795
04/13/2021, 5:33 PMAs did buildbarn, bazel, and probably others!
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hundreds-father-404
04/13/2021, 7:04 PMDoes someone want to chime in with the Pants perspective: https://github.com/bazelbuild/remote-apis/pull/191
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fast-nail-55400
04/14/2021, 8:31 PMI planned to do so today.
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