Standard cross-platform shell tools

[schroederc]

It's currently difficult to create cross-platform Skylark rules (or sh_tests). Even creating symlinks between different Unix systems can be error-prone due to having different supported flags in ln.

Perhaps Bazel can help by providing a more standardized set of tools in each spawn action's environment.

[Helcaraxan]

@dslomov Is this really targeted for 0.6 or will initial development already be part of 5.x?

I'm asking as I am currently facing the issue of needing to make a Skylark rule compatible with Linux & MacOS and would also like to include Windows at the same time.

[pcj]

Related issue: #1797

[Helcaraxan]

Thanks for the information @pcj! This does not give me a direct solution but I do find it to give a good perspective on the context.

[sgowroji]

Hi there! We're doing a clean up of old issues and will be closing this one. Please reopen if you’d like to discuss anything further. We’ll respond as soon as we have the bandwidth/resources to do so.