How we added Apple Silicon support to Pants
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".…
Introducing Pants 2.5: Shell support, config autodiscovery, and incremental tool adoption
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…
Pants 2.2 adds dependency inference for Protobuf
As of Pants 2.2, Pants now knows how to use dependency inference with Protobuf! This includes: 1) Protobuf imports of other Protobuf files, and 2) Python imports of generated Protobuf code, including gRPC.…
Unlocking incremental Python 3 migrations with Pants
How the Pants build tool empowers incremental migrations by: 1. giving fine-grained insights into your migration with minimal boilerplate, and 2. running all your tests and linters, in parallel, with the correct interpreter for each part of your code.…