We're pleased to announce Pants 2.12.0, the latest release of Pants: the scalable and ergonomic build system. To update, set pants_version = "2.12.0" in your pants.toml. See upgrade tips for more information. Initial IDE support for Java and ScalaPants 2.12 includes initial…
We ended up setting up a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner, on a hosted Mac M1. Getting the machine itself up and running was easy, thanks to MacStadium's simple, effective UX. But setting up the GHA runner on it was a little trickier, for a couple of reasons...…
Rather than forcing global or per-project lockfiles, Pants uses a hybrid approach...This allows a repo to operate with the minimum number of lockfiles required to support their conflicting library versions, without necessarily going to the costly extreme of per-project lockfiles.…
We're pleased to announce Pants 2.11.0, the latest release of Pantsbuild, the scalable and ergonomic build system. To update, set pants_version = "2.11.0" in your pants.toml. See upgrade tips, including the update-build-files goal to automate some of the upgrade. Protobuf codegen for GolangPants now can…
On Sunday 1 May 2022, Pants Maintainer, Christopher Neugebauer gave a talk about Pantsbuild's hermetic environments. Here are some useful resources: Example Python repo — the codebase where you can run the demos from the start of the talk.Stu Hood – Faster incremental builds with Speculation (Build Meetup 2021) — this talk…
We're pleased to announce Pants 2.10.0, the latest release of Pantsbuild, the scalable and ergonomic build system. To update, set pants_version = "2.10.0" in your pants.toml. See upgrade tips, including the update-build-files goal to automate some of the upgrade. Multiple Python user lockfilesThe community's top-voted…
We recently conducted our annual survey of the Pants community. The purpose, as usual, was to inform the project roadmap for the year. The survey proceeded in two phases: First, we gathered all the potential projects and needs from the community, then we conducted a round of voting, to help…
Working effectively in a monorepo requires appropriate tooling. While Pants can be a really useful system in repos of all sizes and architectures, it has some features that make it particularly appealing in a monorepo setting……