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…
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…