PyCon US, the largest Python conference in the world, is getting under way (online-only this year), and Pants has a strong presence this year! On Friday at 9:15 AM PDT Pants contributor Benjy Weinberger (that's me!) will be speaking about some of the cool and unusual ways we leverage…
The latest stable release of Pants is out! This version introduces opt-in anonymous telemetry, to provide the Pants maintainers with data to help detect and fix bugs and drive development decisions. We've gone to great lengths to ensure that the data is fully anonymized (see link for details) and we…
There are many benefits of using a monorepo. Among them, cleaner code, enhanced communication, and easier collaboration. The codebase can scale. The big catch is performance. If the experience of performance deteriorates for developers or deployers, that deservedly gets firm pushback. The processes and systems we use with monorepos are…
I'm psyched to announce that the latest stable release of the Pants Build System, 2.3.0, is out now. A major highlight of this release is the tailor goal, which generates BUILD file boilerplate for you! This makes getting Pants up and running in existing repos a lot easier,…
TL;DR The tailor goal, newly available in Pants 2.3.0, generates BUILD file boilerplate for you, making adopting Pants easier than ever! Pants is a powerful system that brings speed and stability to your builds thanks to features such as fine-grained invalidation, caching, and concurrent execution. These features…
As of Pants 2.2, Pants now knows how to use dependency inference with Protobuf! This includes: 1) Protobuf imports of other Protobuf files, and 2) Python imports of generated Protobuf code, including gRPC.…
Fast incremental re-builds are critical in large codebases and monorepos. Thanks to deep support for cancellation and a side-effect free execution model, Pants is able to further reduce re-build latency by speculatively re-executing work.…
Pants contributors Eric Arellano and Stu Hood sat down recently with Tobias Macey, host of the popular Podcast.__init__, to talk about Python monorepos and how Pants supports them. Listen in to learn about the history of Pants (including the origin of the name!), the advantages of a single unified…