bazelbuild
A utility to generate "runfiles tree" for build actions
🚀 feature request
Description
I'm wondering if there's a way to generate python runfiles in an action. This is probably a Bazel request but so far I've only really felt this pain for python as I try to write aspects that run on py_library targets but otherwise require a full runfiles tree.
The only issue I struggle to find a clean solution for is how to deal with generated files. Any library that contains generated files results in files being "missing" in the action bit in reality it hasn't been collapsed into a runfiles tree so other sources fail to import, for example.
Describe the solution you'd like
I think if there's gonna be a rules_python specific implementation then it'd be natural to want to put this logic in python so it can run in the action and avoid impacting the analysis phase too much. Though I'm not sure how to handle environments like windows which do not run in a sandbox and would potentially litter the execroot or conflict with other running actions. Some utility in rules_python would be fantastic.
