load() does not work in WORKSPACE file

[lberki]

Assigning to Damien because he was planning to work on Skylark support for WORKSPACE files.

[damienmg]

Ok as talked offline, will be resolved by the skylark remote repository. I will pass over all the bug related to it and consolidate them when I have a bit more time

[mrdomino]

Any updates on this? It'd be helpful for my purposes.

[damienmg]

I will start working on that this week or next week. The prototype is
already out there at
https://github.com/damienmg/bazel/tree/skylark-remote-repository?files=1

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Any updates on this? It'd be helpful for my purposes.

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[damienmg]

Ok I haven't finished my first change and I am going to be out for 4 weeks so this will be delayed. Sorry for that.

[chin33z]

Any updates? Really need this feature! Thanks.

[damienmg]

Sorry I am back from a 4 weeks leave and I had to work on some emergency
stuff I should restart working on that tomorrow. The problem is that since
I did my initial prototype a lot have change in the Skylark environment and
I have to handle the change.

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Any updates? Really need this feature! Thanks.

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[lberki]

@damienmg: let me know if I can help -- this is quite an important feature and I'm willing to spend time on it :)

[damienmg]

Sure :) I am starting again to work on it right now.

[chin33z]

Just curious, will this feature come independently before "P1. Custom remote repositories using Skylark" finish? I think the two were relative but still independent from user aspect.
Thanks.

[damienmg]

Yes this feature is the first step of the custom remote repositories so it will be available first. I am still having issues with making it work with the environment change but that shouldn't be too long until this is rolled-out.

[benley]

yessssssssss thank you

[davidzchen]

Woohoo! \o/

[chin33z]

THANKS!!