We're pleased to announce [Pants 2.9.0](https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.9/docs), the latest release of Pants: the scalable and ergonomic build system!…
As more and more people start using and discovering Pants, we’ve discovered that it’s difficult to talk about the tool without introducing it as The Pants Build System, which isn’t very snappy or easy to remember. Especially in titles of posts or in tweets without that much…
IntroductionWorking with a monorepository implies dealing with build metadata files that provide information about the source code and how it should be built. Pants build system uses BUILD files which are valid Python files and are evaluated using a Python interpreter as a list of statements. When adding support for…
Hi Pants community, 2021 was another massive year for the project, even as the pandemic continued to disrupt our lives in so many challenging ways. We grew our Python user base significantly, engaged in critical developer relations efforts, gained new community members, including several new maintainers and contributors, and added…
We've added a spate of new pages in recent months, plus Eric Arellano just completed a thorough audit of the docs which resulted in overhauling several pages. So if you haven't checked all of these out docs pages recently, give 'em a read or re-visit: Overhauled Getting Started Key concepts…
We’ve been busy working on JVM support for the open source Pants Build system, starting with support for Java and Scala. We’re excited about the progress we’ve made with Java support, and we want to share with you some of the more exciting work we’ve done.…
We in the Pants Build community have a lot of experience in helping teams evaluate and adopt Pants. And often, the first step involves helping those teams understand why Pants is the best fit for their needs (and honestly recognizing when it isn’t). As you may expect, organizations evaluating…
Pants 2.8 adds Autoflake & Pyupgrade, Docker publishing, Golang, PEP 517 publishing, and Google Cloud Functions…