bazel-contrib / bazel-contrib/rules_python
Make py_wheel provide depset of files
- Dominant language
- Starlark
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Description
The basic goal is to allow depending on a build-time generated wheel (i.e. `py_wheel` _without_ having to go through the zip/unzip process of creating a wheel archive. Wheels may be large in size, so the process of staging, archiving, and extracting them is unnecessary overhead.
So the idea is `py_wheel` provides `(prefix, files)` information, which can then be used by consumers. This then allows e.g.
```
py_wheel(name="foo_whl", ...)
py_wheel_as_py_library(
name = "foo_whl_as_pylib",
srcs = [":foo_whl"]
)
py_test(
name="foo",
deps = ["foo_whl_as_pylib"],
)
```
Where `py_wheel_as_py_library` returns PyInfo() et al pointing to what the whl would extract to (i.e. a directory with the contents of the wheel).
Looking at py_wheel, this looks quite doable, since Starlark is already generating most (if not all?) of what goes into the wheel, and the `wheelmaker.py` program is mostly just zip's the files up.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reading the existing py_wheel implementation and wheelmaker.py to understand how wheel contents and their prefix are produced. Define how py_wheel exposes the prefix and files, and how py_wheel_as_py_library uses them to provide PyInfo() without staging or extracting an archive. Done means a build-time generated wheel can be consumed by py_test through the proposed dependency pattern.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100