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...…
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……
If you’re responsible for your organization’s codebase architecture, then at some point you have to make some emphatic choices about how to manage this growth in a scalable way. There are two common architectural alternatives to choose from...…
The Pants Maintainers are a group of people with an ongoing commitment to Pants, who help manage and steer the project. Maintainers are a subgroup within the wider Contributor population. I'm very pleased to introduce the latest addition to the Maintainer ranks: Joshua Cannon. Joshua's current interests are his 9…
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…
📔Contents: • Introduction • Why choose Pants • Design matters • In our users' own words • To sum it upIntroduction 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…
TL;DR The upcoming Pants 2.8 release has greatly improved support for packaging Python distributions (sdists and wheels), including native extensions, by leveraging PEP 517. Pants has industry-leading support for Python builds - covering steps such as resolving 3rd-party dependencies, running tests, generating code, running formatters and linters, packaging…