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Reflecting on the Shake Build System
> hermetic == sandbox which only contains declared deps
Yes, exactly. It also can include other deps like networking. A perfect hermetic build will (for most of the build process) not have access to the network.
> I assume bazel implements this via containers?
Sort of. Bazel's code predates "containers" by ~6 years. Bazel is the build system used at Google (sprinkle on a large amount of asterisks here).
> Also, IMO, this only provides a false sense of safety unless you archive absolutely everything that's inside the sandbox.
Yes, that is what a Bazel monorepo does. You can also include your language's runtime and standard library as part of the build process. See Dropbox's repo for more details on how they do this with Python: https://github.com/dropbox/dbx_build_tools
Some more details about what Google does are available here: https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/#
Essentially, everything is built from source (more asterisks here). Since everything is built from source using Bazel you can guarantee that at a certain view of the source repository you can build a reproducible copy of all software in the repo (more asterisks).
One other nice property is you can guarantee that all software in the repo is using a compatible version of each dep: https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/oneversion/
The downside is that if you want to upgrade a library that has a breaking change this requires you update a lot of code. The upside is that doing that isn't actually that hard with the tooling available and you can guarantee that you can link together any two libraries in the repo (more asterisks) and have the build succeed without any dep version conflicts. Since you can do this some langauges with runtimes (like JVM language) can see massive speed boosts because they only need to compile changed libraries and can run a `java -cp ... your.jar` to load up deps. You can check out rules_docker for some examples of how this can be used.
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dropbox/dbx_build_tools is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of dbx_build_tools is Go.
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