ctx.resolve_tools

[Fabian Meumertzheim]

Motivated by a Slack thread (https://bazelbuild.slack.com/archives/CA31HN1T3/p1684317657372349), I am wondering whether there is any functional difference between:

tool_inputs, tool_manifests = ctx.resolve_tools(tool_targets)

ctx.actions.run(

    inputs = ... + tool_inputs,

    input_manifests = tool_manifests,

    ...

)

and

ctx.actions.run(

    inputs = ...,

    tools = [t[DefaultInfo].files_to_run or t[DefaultInfo].files for t in tool_targets],

)

That is, does ctx.resolve_tools do more than looking up the FilesToRunProviders and collecting their runfiles?

Fabian