This issue is to capture some of the topics that we, the rules_python maintainers, are particularly interested in this coming year. These are topics where we'd be particularly excited by PRs or design discussions.
Note that these are not promises of particular work. This is still a community driven project, so people work on what they find interesting or rewarding.
Topics are in no particular order. Discussion for a topic should be in their associated issue. This is not an exclusive list.
- A venv and site-packages layout for dependencies:
- Consolidating
*_bazel.bzl files, removing semantics.bzl, and general cleanup of the core rule implementations:
- Implementing uv-based toolchain
- Supporting other lockfile formats (e.g. PEP751)
- Module-based main (
python -m <name>)
- Build-phase sdist building
- Solution to implicit dependencies on user-space libraries. Related:
- Implementing a C++ based bootstrap (expanding bootstrap to support e.g. compiled languages)
- Make
bootstrap_impl=script the default
- Splitting sphinxdocs into its own bzlmod MODULE
- Toolchains for local interpreters
- Stabilize the pulling of platform-specific wheels matching target platform (i.e.
experimental_index_url):
- Zip stdlib to reduce file count / runfiles overhead
cc @aignas @groodt
This issue is to capture some of the topics that we, the rules_python maintainers, are particularly interested in this coming year. These are topics where we'd be particularly excited by PRs or design discussions.
Note that these are not promises of particular work. This is still a community driven project, so people work on what they find interesting or rewarding.
Topics are in no particular order. Discussion for a topic should be in their associated issue. This is not an exclusive list.
*_bazel.bzlfiles, removingsemantics.bzl, and general cleanup of the core rule implementations:_bazel.bzland remove semantics.bzl #2522uvas part ofrules_python#1975python -m <name>)python -minvocation style #2539sdistin a build action #2410bootstrap_impl=scriptthe default//sphinxdocsto be a separate bazel submodule and setup publishing to BCR #2511experimental_index_url):experimental_index_urlandexperimental_extra_index_urls) #2100experimental_index_urlwithout having hashes in the lock file #2023cc @aignas @groodt