rules_pyvenv VS laptop

Agree IDE support isn't great for Bazel + python. We've reached a happy (for us) median by using Bazel to build a virtualenv, and using that virtualenv to power normal python tools. All of the packages in the env are just symlinked bazep deps. See rules_pyvenv.

We currently manage the dependencies manually, although I'm pretty sure work is being done to bring gazelle to rules_python (maybe it's already landed).

For what it's worth, our venv stuff is at https://github.com/cedarai/rules_pyvenv

Nice work! I’ve used a similar script for Ruby dev (actually I use it as a reference rather than just running it, but still useful): https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop

The oldest commits on this script are 11 years old and nothing in the last year, which seems quite stable. At the same time I was able to ask an intern to just run it, and bam! they have everything they need installed.

One use for it that surprised me was hearing a colleague saying that he reinstalls his OS after every change of client and runs the setup script again so there’s no fear of IP theft but also no downtime from having an unconfigured machine.