I agree the open source version has not been around for that long. But... It is picking up adoption within many other companies this year: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/wiki/Bazel-Users
And some adoption in academia as well, e.g. http://drake.mit.edu/bazel.html On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 at 17:18 Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 21 September 2017 at 22:40, Siddhartha Bagaria wrote: > | We have released some Bazel rules for R packages. > | https://github.com/grailbio/rules_r > | > | What is Bazel? > | > | Bazel <https://bazel.build/> is an industry tested build system that > can be > | used for continuous integration and testing in large monorepos (multiple > | software libraries as part of one repository). > | > | When should you use Bazel for your R packages? > | > | 1. Continuous integration and testing > | If your organization already uses Bazel, and you have R packages as part > of > | the same repo. These rules will run unit tests or R CMD check on changes > to > | your package, or any dependency as part of the same build system that > your > | organization uses. You can also deploy docker images with your R packages > | installed in them as part of your continuous integration. > | > | 2. Reproducible builds > | Using Bazel will force you to fix versions of your package dependencies, > | and every build will be reproducible. Updates to package dependencies can > | then be vetted and be done incrementally if desired. This is an > alternative > | to maintaining a private repository of CRAN/Bioc packages or using a CRAN > | snapshot service. > | > | If these do not concern you, then you should not consider Bazel because > of > | the additional complexity introduced. > | > | I am happy to answer any questions you may have. > > Are you aware of any bazel users outside of Google and its spin-offs, > including Grail? > > Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
