Mike Bland

Bzlmod: Repo Names and Runfiles

I've published my second EngFlow blog post, explaining the necessity of using runfiles libraries with Bzlmod. It also tries to fill a lot of runfiles documentation gaps in general.


Tags: Bazel, Bzlmod, EngFlow, technical

My second EngFlow blog post is about the necessity of using runfiles libraries with Bazel modules, a.k.a. Bzlmod. Like the first Bzlmod post, this is a somewhat exhaustive reference, attempting to fill a number of documentation gaps around the topic of runfiles. The focus is specifically on Bzlmod projects, but it documents how to use runfiles in general, with a working example in Python.

Check it out:

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