I have a draft PR of a commit set that adds about ...
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hundreds-breakfast-49010
12/18/2019, 1:09 AMI have a draft PR of a commit set that adds about the most basic possible notion of a HTTP intrinsic to the engine: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/8834 , curious for people's thoughts on this
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witty-crayon-22786
12/18/2019, 3:02 AMi continue to be uncomfortable with the idea.
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happy-kitchen-89482
12/18/2019, 3:34 AMwhat is an alternative for rules that need to make API requests?
happy-kitchen-89482
12/18/2019, 3:38 AMFor example, would an EPR that calls
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witty-crayon-22786
12/18/2019, 4:31 AMCreate a pex and isolate this logic there.
witty-crayon-22786
12/18/2019, 4:33 AM(is an alternative: not an imperative)
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happy-kitchen-89482
12/18/2019, 5:48 AMNot sure I understand how that is better