bazel-contrib / bazel-contrib/rules_python
Make py_wheel warn if BUILD (or other special bazel files) are included
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We've seen there are wheels that have special bazel build-time artifacts in them, which then interfere with the pip integration. While we should remove these upon consuming a wheel to prevent the problem, the wheels also shouldn't have those files in them to begin with.
Something I wonder is _how_ those files are ending up in wheels? My guess is just naive `glob("**")` somewhere. We can't control other tools to create wheels, but at the least, we can change py_wheel to error or fail if such special files occur.
Hm, I wonder if we could query pypi to see how often the metadata `Generator` value indicates our py_wheel was used.
Special files:
* BUILD
* BUILD.bazel
* WORKSPACE
* WORKSPACE.bazel
* REPO.bazel
* MODULE.bazel
* Auto-generated `__init__.py` files
I include auto-generated init files because I've seen a few wheels (nvidia-something) that had empty `__init__.py` files in places they shouldn't be or made no sense. (they use namespace packages, so such empty init files break things).
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