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This would be great for BUILD tools like bazel which is written in Java.
by malkia 9y ago
This would be great for BUILD tools like bazel which is written in Java.
- mkobit 9y agoDo you mean for Bazel itself or for building apps with bazel? Bazel is still a bit away from having Java 9 support [1] and it still requires some system dependencies (for the other languages and cross system support). I wish more tools would go the "static binary" path that make it easy to build and use wrappers without having to figure out system configuration every single time. [1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/3410 https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/3410
- malkia 9y agobazel itself. One of the complaints I here (not sure how valid they are) is that people's docker images tend to grow a lot, and I'm not proposing bazel yet, as it'll pull additional hundreths of megabytes, plus some more per WORKSPACE. For Windows, it's mainly perception - if engineer sees that a tool is like 200mb in the depot, he/she be like - that's too much :) "Remember why we pulled boost, and no longer use it - as it's huuuge!" :)