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average-vr-56795
08/28/2018, 4:12 PM@enough-analyst-54434 On https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/6405 - I quite like that in the bazel model every file is implicitly also a target - not suggesting any changes, just food for thought 🙂
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enough-analyst-54434
08/28/2018, 5:04 PMThat change does add an implicit target for the requirements.txt file (
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average-vr-56795
08/28/2018, 5:05 PMI mean that in bazel, you wouldn’t need the
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08/28/2018, 5:05 PMNot saying it’s a thing we should add, but an interesting contrast 🙂
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enough-analyst-54434
08/28/2018, 5:10 PMGotcha. Not so interesting in a macro since it's a one time effort, but very interesting when hammering on BUILDs as a user!
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average-vr-56795
08/28/2018, 5:29 PMIndeed :) also means that file dependencies are tracked in the graph the same as target dependencies, which I guess is becoming more true in v2, but has interesting effects for graph API goals
average-vr-56795
08/28/2018, 5:38 PMOutput files are also implicitly targets, so:
java_library(source = "Foo.java")
Works equivalently whether Foo.java happens to be checked in, or generated by some other target, which I really like :)
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