rules_python VS bazel-skylib

Compare rules_python vs bazel-skylib and see what are their differences.

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rules_python bazel-skylib
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rules_python

Posts with mentions or reviews of rules_python. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-24.
  • Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Oct 2023
    Using Python with Bazel is fairly common at big SV companies -- they use rules_python with it (https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python). It does rely on pip for grabbing dependencies but handles building modules and can integrates well with rules_docker/rules_oci for building container images from your code.
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Oct 2023
    What's SV?

    I honestly don't know why anyone would use that... as in what does Bazel do better than virtually anything else that can provide this functionality. But, I used to be an ops engineer in a big company which wanted everything to be Maven, regardless of whether it does it well or not. So we built and deployed with Maven a lot of weird and unrelated stuff.

    Not impossible, but not anything I'd advise anyone to do on their free time.

    Specifically wrt' the link you posted, if you look here: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/blob/main/python/... it says that only pure Python wheels are supported, but that's also a lie, they don't support half of the functionality of pure Python wheels.

    So, definitely not worth using, since lots of functionality is simply not there.

  • Build faster with Buck2: Our open source build system
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2023
    Regarding bazel, the rules_python has a py_wheel rule that helps you creating wheels that you can upload to pypi (https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/blob/52e14b78307a...).

    If you want to see an approach of bazel to pypi taken a bit to the extreme you can have a look at tensorflow on GitHub to see how they do it. They don't use the above-mentioned building rule because I think their build step is quite complicated (C/C++ stuff, Vida/ROCm support, python bindings, and multiOS support all in one before you can publish to pypi).

  • Incremental Builds for Haskell with Bazel
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jun 2022
    Python support in Bazel now looks more promising with `rules_python`: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python

    `rules_go` to my understanding is great too.

    Over years, Bazel is not as opinionated as before, mostly because adoptions in different orgs force it to be so.

  • Advantages of Monorepos
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Apr 2022
    I have personally run converted build systems to Bazel, and use it for personal projects as well.

    Bazel 1.0 was released in October 2019. If you were using it "a few years ago", I'm guessing you were using a pre-1.0 version. There's not some cutoff where Bazel magically got easy to use, and I still wouldn't describe it as "easy", but the problem it solves is hard to solve well, and the community support for Bazel has gotten a lot better over the past years.

    https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python

    The difficulty and complexity of using Bazel is highly variable. I've seen some projects where using Bazel is just super simple and easy, and some projects where using Bazel required a massive effort (custom toolchains and the like).

  • Experimentations on Bazel: Python & FastAPI (1)
    5 projects | dev.to | 18 Apr 2021
    load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive") #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Python #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # enable python rules http_archive( name = "rules_python", url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/releases/download/0.2.0/rules_python-0.2.0.tar.gz", sha256 = "778197e26c5fbeb07ac2a2c5ae405b30f6cb7ad1f5510ea6fdac03bded96cc6f", )

bazel-skylib

Posts with mentions or reviews of bazel-skylib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rules_python and bazel-skylib you can also consider the following projects:

rules_nixpkgs - Rules for importing Nixpkgs packages into Bazel.

uwsgi-nginx-flask-docker - Docker image with uWSGI and Nginx for Flask applications in Python running in a single container.

bazel-coverage-report-renderer - Haskell rules for Bazel.

dbx_build_tools - Dropbox's Bazel rules and tools

rules_nodejs - NodeJS toolchain for Bazel.

black - The uncompromising Python code formatter

pip-upgrade - Upgrade your pip packages with one line. A fast, reliable and easy tool for upgrading all of your packages while not breaking any dependencies

python-streams - A Library to support Writing concise functional code in python

rules_graalvm - Build GraalVM native binaries with Bazel

rules_pyenv - Bazel rules for pyenv (simple python version management)

TypeRig - Proxy API and Font Development Toolkit for FontLab