fmeum
commented
9 months ago @matts1 That docs link doesn't appear to be publicly accessible. I would very much like to read it as I have also been thinking about this lately.
Open matts1 opened 9 months ago
fmeum
commented
9 months ago @matts1 That docs link doesn't appear to be publicly accessible. I would very much like to read it as I have also been thinking about this lately.
Wyverald
commented
9 months ago This is certainly an interesting idea that was definitely not possible before Skymeld. It probably works better as a proposal (see https://github.com/bazelbuild/proposals) than as an issue though.
matts1
commented
9 months ago @fmeum Ah, I thought I published it but apparently not. I've made it into an actual proposal now.
Description of the feature request:
I wrote a proposal. See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OsEHpsJXXMC9SFAmAh20S42Dbmgdj4cNyYAsFOHMibo/edit#heading=h.kzp6mqja2p3t
Repository rules are described as “a rule that enables non-hermetic operation at the loading phase of bazel”. However, the vast majority of repository rules are not nonhermetic - they are completely hermetic operations that simple happen to output build files.
In theory, there's nothing stopping us from instead using regular rules to generate repositories. I've created a design to do so.
Which category does this issue belong to?
External Dependency
What underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?
Which operating system are you running Bazel on?
N/A
What is the output of
bazel info release?N/A
If
bazel info releasereturnsdevelopment versionor(@non-git), tell us how you built Bazel.No response
What's the output of
git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse master; git rev-parse HEAD?No response
Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?
No. I also discussed this with the bazel team a few weeks ago, and they said this wasn't possible. This is my proposal to make it possible
Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?
No response