This removes the need to install any specific version of Python or
figure out how to configure it by instead asking users to install `uv`
and letting it manage Python. Among other advantages, `uv` is designed
to be fast enough to embed directly into our scripts.
We were already using this in `bench_runner.py` so that the script could
import non standard library dependencies. Moving to it for the rest of
our Python unifies the approach and will also enable dependencies
whenever needed.
I've left `github_tools` alone as it has special handling with its own
Bazel setup.
I've updated the contributing tools to explain the approach here.
I'm treating my PR to mypy bazel integration as dead in the water. Abandoning that approach, this seems to work reasonably well as a replacement. It's actually a slightly newer version of mypy too -- the bazel integration was stuck on an old version.
Note I don't think we're losing much: we shouldn't be writing too much python.
I went down this route because I figured the installer binary should be in `check_deps`. The result:
- Add thin wrapper scripts for `buildozer` and `bazel`, similar to the `buildifier` wrapper that's already there.
- These are mainly to avoid deduplicating logic, and dodging intricacies of Python imports that I don't understand well through instead subprocessing.
- Fix update_roots.py (it was missing a `.parent`, must've been relocated without a re-run at some point)
- Fix fuzzer proto code to be `testonly`
- Update the `check_deps` targets
Moves common script logic into utils.py (not a great name, but couldn't come up with better). This is in particular to make the buildifier.py script really trivial, allowing that pre-commit to be easily added. However, scripts have also been diverging on how we find bazel, so I'm trying to unify that.
The advantage of reimplementing buildifier's pre-commit is that (a) we can now run buildifier server-side, and (b) we can stop advising installing it manually. Then the only Linux-specific package manager is Cargo, which is only used for watchman, which is optional -- so stop highlighting Linux-specific package managers in the tool instructions.
Chandler Carruth
Jon Meow
Jon Meow