My tenth EngFlow Bzlmod blog post, the longest of the EngFlow Bzlmod
series by far so far, appeared late yesterday. From this one topic,
making toolchain configuration macros using Label compatible with Bzlmod and
legacy WORKSPACE builds, came so many insights and possibilities. Once it got
to a certain length, I thought about splitting it up, but it seemed like all
this information really needed to stay together.
Many thanks to Mike Lundy for raising the issue and being tenacious enough to work through it with me. Many thanks to Jay Conrod for providing another thoughtful review, as usual, and inspiring me to emphasize the most straightforard of the solutions.
Now I promise that the next two Bzlmod blog posts will describe:
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writing tests that work under
WORKSPACE, Bzlmod, different Bazel versions, and the latest dependency versions -
writing smoke tests for dependency version compatibility, and running tests locally and in continuous integration
As always, feel free to comment on the LinkedIn announcement corresponding to this post or the Bzlmod Slack announcement in the #bzlmod channel.