Fabian Meumertzheim
Fabian Meumertzheim
With Bzlmod and its Minimum Version Selection, it's actually better to *not* update dependencies of "library projects" (such as rulesets). That avoids forcing users to upgrade. It would make sense...
Cc @linzhp @tyler-french for Über's "conventions" approach
We should also take into account that `--repo_contents_cache` exists now and, at least in theory, could receive a remote backend implementation.
@c-mita Friendly ping, does this need the awaiting-merge label?
We instead build on a Windows machine that uses the UTF-8 locale by default (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/blob/3e1922ce656252edde79f39a53e926da4222cefe/src/upload_all_java_tools.sh#L51) and patch a Windows app manifest into the resulting native image to force the use...
@jmillikin FYI, I started to work on this.
@comius @tjgq I need to add support for nested location functions (`$(dirname $(dirname foo/bar/baz))`) for this to be really useful. Any concerns?
@jmillikin This should now be complete, could you take a look and verify that it solves your use cases?
@jmillikin This is meant to implement your proposal C from https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/pull/23518#issuecomment-2423740537 - I added more tests and edited the RELNOTES to point this out. Does this address your concern?
> But since it solves a problem that is different from the one I care about, [...] I understand that you would have preferred the `$(location_dirname ...)` syntax that was...