chore: delete stale tutorial content #331
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alexeagle
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Oct 3, 2023
- This contains an iOS app, but the main iOS tutorial linked from https://bazel.build/start/ios-app lives elsewhere
- It shows rules_appengine, but that repo appears to have only minimal maintenance for broken flags. Latest comment from a maintainer is 'not being actively maintained' Support for python 3 google sdk rules_appengine#128 (comment)
- bazelbuild/codelabs was archived, but there are active community forks at https://github.com/engflow/codelabs and https://github.com/aspect-build/codelabs which have fresher content than this tutorials folder.
- No one has touched tutorial/android in four years.
1. This contains an iOS app, but the main iOS tutorial linked from https://bazel.build/start/ios-app lives elsewhere 2. It shows rules_appengine, but that repo appears to have only minimal maintenance for broken flags. Latest comment from a maintainer is 'not being actively maintained' bazelbuild/rules_appengine#128 (comment) 3. bazelbuild/codelabs was archived, but there are active community forks at https://github.com/engflow/codelabs and https://github.com/aspect-build/codelabs which have fresher content than this tutorials folder. 4. No one has touched tutorial/android in four years.
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From rules_apple's side, we're okay with removing this since we already have a version of this tutorial which we maintain in rules_apple: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple/blob/master/doc/tutorials/ios-app.md |
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Re: Android, note https://bazel.build/start/android-app refers to this repo. Particularly https://github.com/bazelbuild/examples/tree/main/android/tutorial is different than https://github.com/bazelbuild/examples/tree/main/tutorial/android ? This looks reasonable to me but paging @ahumesky . |
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Correct, |
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ping @gregestren could you ask Alex to look? I don't think he has setup notifications from GitHub or doesn't notice them. |
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ping @meisterT |
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Looks fine to remove redundant tutorials/samples/examples. Pretty confusing anyway to have both |
[Recently](bazelbuild/examples#331), the `ios-app` project living in [bazelbuild/examples](https://github.com/bazelbuild/examples) was removed. This PR contains a few improvements: - I updated our tutorial that shows how to create create a simple iOS app that builds with Bazel not to rely or point to the non-existing project. - We now provide all the source code (one Swift file and one `Info.plist`) to generate a basic sample iOS app in this tutorial. - The source code is now Swift instead of Objective-C. - Simplified many sentences and commands, along with a few bug fixes required due to breaking changes in `rules_xcodeproj` (it now requires a `@bazel_features` explicit dependency). I think it would be a good idea to move the tutorial to use bzlmod once Bazel 7 ships. For now, we can continue using the `WORKSPACE` for ease of compatibility with the default Bazel 6 behavior.