search

microsoft / BuildXL

Microsoft Build Accelerator
MIT License
917 stars 146 forks source link

More document about download packages #1328

Closed ShuiRuTian closed 1 year ago

ShuiRuTian commented 1 year ago

Here is a good document about how to download packages for JS repo: https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL/blob/021cb639620d39ffc3a7d5cb784f877f2ed8c7aa/Documentation/Wiki/Frontends/js-package-install.md

However, it's kind of useless, because I do not know how to use it!

And it seems the document is internally: please refer Configuring a 'prep' build to do package install section in https://eng.ms/docs/cloud-ai-platform/devdiv/one-engineering-system-1es/1es-build/buildxl/buildxl-in-cloudbuild#javascript-on-buildxl-in-cloudbuild

Add some document or link would be helpful.

smera commented 1 year ago

Hi @ShuiRuTian , The internal document is CloudBuild-specific, which is not a system available outside of MS, that's why we don't have a reference on GitHub about this (or more generally, any CloudBuild reference on GitHub). These documents are referring to making package install happen as a BuildXL build, which is particularly useful on CloudBuild. Outside of CB, this is probably not very relevant and doing package install outside of BuildXL is probably the easiest (e.g. as a step in your YAML pipeline, for the case of an ADO build).