pip dependencies name conflict

[liuyl]

Consider a py_binary target has

deps = [
    requirement("google-auth"),
    requirement("google-cloud-storage")
]

Both google-auth and google-cloud-storage package have top level directory google, which causes conflict.
import google.storage will complain about no module named google.storage because python is trying to find storage module in the google-auth package's google directory.

Wonder has anybody else had this issue, and how to resolve it?

[thundergolfer]

This is a duplicate of #65. Yep, a lot of us have had this issue 😅. It's also a problem for the azure.* packages (#273, #93).

These are long standing issues, so we fixed this problem over in https://github.com/dillon-giacoppo/rules_python_external and now use that at work. ✅

[thundergolfer]

There's also https://github.com/ali5h/rules_pip and https://github.com/apt-itude/rules_pip which I think also handle this problem. The latter might not be actively maintained though.

[liuyl]

@thundergolfer indeed, thanks for the pointer to other related bugs and the solution! will try rules_python_external.

[thundergolfer]

Closing as duplicate of #93 and #65