The Pants open-source project exists and thrives thanks to the efforts of its various contributors, who do everything from system design to coding to updating our documentation to answering questions on our Slack workspace. Within the larger group of official Contributors are a smaller group of Maintainers - people with…
We're pleased to announce Pants 2.6.0, the latest release of Pants, the scalable and ergonomic build system. To update, set pants_version = "2.6.0" in your pants.toml. See upgrade tips. Poetry supportPants now understands Poetry's pyproject.toml configuration for third-party dependency management, addressing one of our…
Pants 2.6 can now understand Poetry’s pyproject.toml configuration for third-party dependency management, addressing one of our most requested features in the last year! Pants Contributor Liam Wilson delves into this new feature as well as his experiences developing the macro as a Toolchain intern.…
One of the core Pants maintainers, Benjy Weinberger, was recently interviewed for the PyDev of the Week feature on the Mouse vs Python blog! Click through for more about the history of Pants, how Benjy came to be involved, his take on the project's strengths, and his favorite Python libraries.…
Successful open source projects are full of tradeoffs between purity vs. pragmatism. We often remind ourselves "Do not let perfect be the enemy of good".…
We're pleased to announce Pants 2.5.0, the latest release of Pants, the scalable and ergonomic build system. To update, set pants_version = "2.5.0" in your pants.toml. See upgrade tips. Shell supportPants now supports Shell (e.g. Bash), in addition to Python! Our goal is to…
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…