agreed 2 On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 2:49 PM SiMing Weng <siming.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One thing I really would like to see happening is a better/simpler IDE > support, maybe via the the Google Jetbrains Bazel Plugin < > https://ij.bazel.build/>. I knew we had a shell script to generate > IntelliJ “.iml” file, but it seems no longer working. > > I know from CI point of view, IDE support doesn’t seem important, but a > better developer experience/productivity is going to help drive the > interest from the community. > > > On Jan 17, 2020, at 5:22 PM, Ning Wang <wangnin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > agreed > > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 11:45 AM Josh Fischer <j...@joshfischer.io> > wrote: > > > >> I think that most of the rules that Bazel comes with now did not exist > when > >> Heron was under its core development cycles. Now when it comes to > upgrading > >> Bazel I would ask the dev@ for feedback if you have to make a decision > on > >> what is the best way to go, offering your perspective as well. If you > feel > >> that it is simpler to remove some custom rule implementations then I > would > >> make your case write a proposal and send it off to dev@ to get feedback > >> and > >> support on the issue. I think it's safe to say we are all looking for a > >> simpler way to manage the Bazel build rules within the Heron code base > and > >> we would be happy to get suggestions or feedback on any of our current > >> Bazel usage/implementation today. > >> > >> - Josh > >> > >> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 12:19 PM Ning Wang <wangnin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >>> My feeling is that, Bazel moves fast. When Heron was started, Bazel was > >>> still young (4+ years ago) and many tasks have to be done via custom > >> rules. > >>> And when upgrading Bazel, it is often not backward compatible ..... so > >> the > >>> effort is to fix the build, not clean it up. > >>> > >>> However I was not in the team when the project started. Karthik, > Sanjeev, > >>> Maosong, Neng, Huijun should have more information. > >>> > >>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 6:37 AM Nicholas Nezis < > nicholas.ne...@gmail.com > >>> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Can I start a thread for a quick discussion about Bazel? I apologize > if > >>>> this is a silly question. I'm new to Bazel. > >>>> > >>>> I'm curious why there are so many custom rules defined in the Heron > >> repo > >>>> (tools/rules). I see Bazel provided rules that we could leverage for > >>> things > >>>> like JarJar and Javadoc and Python, etc. Are there specific reasons > why > >>>> there is custom logic in the Heron repo? Or was it maybe historical > >>> because > >>>> the Bazel provided resources didn't exist at the time? I was looking > at > >>>> upgrading our use of Bazel to 1.X. Upgrading our custom logic seem > >> harder > >>>> than upgrading a version of a Bazel provided rules dependency. > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Nick > >>>> > >>> > >> > >
