David Santiago

Sure. Should we ping the guy who originally implemented this, in case they have a use case or situation that this also affects?

OK. I think that looks like @wcurrie . Hello. I've got a PR for the change and it works, but I wasn't able to figure out all the ins and...

Sure, and just to be clear, I'm not trying to kill the `runtime_deps` feature. I'm just doing what the rules_kotlin source code says to do [here](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_kotlin/blob/master/kotlin/internal/jvm/jvm.bzl#L288), where it says that...

Oh, being able to write the deps in starlark would be amazing. But when I looked into that just now, it doesn't seem like that is a very proximate prospect,...

Totally cool with that. My natural tendency to generalize led me to think about where else this feature might be useful, but I could not come up with anything other...

It looks like this is done. But I'd add that I don't understand why there's no default implementation, nor why it is written so you have to code your own...

Makes sense. Unrelated: do you think it would be possible to get bazel-deps working as an external repo in another project? That way you could do something like bind the...

Yeah, I actually forked the project and gave it a shot last night. After adding bazel-deps and the rules_scala repo as git_repository() entries in the WORKSPACE, it fails to see...

Weird, just noticed the last paragraph in my previous post was inserted twice. Not sure how that happened. Anyways, very interesting about the prelude. I hadn't heard of the Bazel...

Good idea. I'll try to put one up later.