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Packaging Python with the PyOxidizer Pants Plugin

Language Support > Python

Packaging Python with the PyOxidizer Pants Plugin

Alliterations aside, this post discusses the new PyOxidizer integration coming in Pants 2.10 for packaging Python applications.

Choosing a Python interpreter for a Pants project

Language Support > Python

Choosing a Python interpreter for a Pants project

Choosing a compatible Python interpreter carefully is important not only for developers, but for the Pants repository administrators as well. Developers using Pants build system in their project may see various errors and have different behaviors depending on the Python interpreter...

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Community > Meet the Team

Meet our newest Maintainer: Joshua Cannon

The Pants Maintainers [https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/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 [https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/the-pants-community#contributors] population. I'm very pleased to introduce the latest

Language Support > JVM Featured

Pants 2.9: Alpha support for Java and Scala, improvements for Docker and Go, and more

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!

You can call us Pantsbuild (or Pants, whichever you prefer)

You can call us Pantsbuild (or Pants, whichever you prefer)

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

Updating Pants BUILD files programmatically

Getting Started

Updating Pants BUILD files programmatically

Introduction Working 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

Happy new year!

Happy new year!

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 [https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/media] efforts, gained new community members, including several

Docs improvements

Getting Started

Docs improvements

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

Automatically unlocking concurrent builds and fine-grained caching on the JVM with dependency inference

Language Support > JVM

Automatically unlocking concurrent builds and fine-grained caching on the JVM with dependency inference

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.

Pants vs. Bazel: Why Pants may be the right choice for your team

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Pants vs. Bazel: Why Pants may be the right choice for your team

Many considerations go into evaluating and adopting a new build system: performance, scalability language and framework support, ease of adoption and use, extensibility, compatibility with existing practices, and more.…

Pants 2.8 adds Autoflake & Pyupgrade, Docker publishing, Golang, and Google Cloud Functions

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Pants 2.8 adds Autoflake & Pyupgrade, Docker publishing, Golang, and Google Cloud Functions

Pants 2.8 adds Autoflake & Pyupgrade, Docker publishing, Golang, PEP 517 publishing, and Google Cloud Functions

Pants 2.8 adds experimental Golang support

Release Announcements

Pants 2.8 adds experimental Golang support

Why Pants for Golang? A consistent interface for all languages & tools, integration with Git + advanced project introspection, and remote caching and execution. All with minimal boilerplate.

Pants supports PEP 517

Language Support > Python

Pants supports PEP 517

> TL;DR The upcoming Pants 2.8 release has greatly improved support [https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.8/docs/python-distributions] 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

Podcasting Pants

Podcasting Pants

Pants team members periodically get invited to be interviewed about aspects of the project. It's a delight to have these conversations, sharing our expertise and passion for build engineering. If you haven't heard these stories yet, you're in for a treat. And of course if you want to hear more

Streamline your Docker builds with Pants

Streamline your Docker builds with Pants

> TL;DR Pants makes it easy and efficient to incrementally build and deploy multiple Docker images from a single repo, with a single command. Each image can consist of a shared base image plus a single PEX (Python EXecutable) file containing all the code, resources and dependencies required by the

Docker support in Pants 2.7

Release Announcements Featured

Docker support in Pants 2.7

With Pants 2.7 [https://blog.pantsbuild.org/introducing-pants-2-7/] comes a new experimental backend for building Docker [https://www.docker.com/] images and linting Dockerfiles [https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/]. This backend offers a seamless experience when bundling your code and files into Docker images - In a

My experience contributing YAPF formatter support to Pants 2.7

Language Support > Python

My experience contributing YAPF formatter support to Pants 2.7

With the latest 2.7 release [https://blog.pantsbuild.org/introducing-pants-2-7/] , Pants now supports the YAPF Python autoformatter [https://github.com/google/yapf], in addition to Black, isort, Docformatter, and Shfmt! For example, if we start with this code: # project/app.py x = 3 + 3 print( x ) You can run

Introducing Pants 2.7: Python tool lockfiles, Yapf, Docker, and ./pants peek

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Introducing Pants 2.7: Python tool lockfiles, Yapf, Docker, and ./pants peek

We're pleased to announce Pants 2.7.0, the latest release of Pants, the scalable and ergonomic build system. To update, set pants_version = "2.7.0" in your pants.toml. See upgrade tips [https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/upgrade-tips]. Python tool lockfiles Pants now pins every dependency [https://www.

Meet our newest Maintainer: Andreas Stenius

Community > Meet the Team

Meet our newest Maintainer: Andreas Stenius

Andreas lives in Visby, the main city of Gotland, which in turn is the biggest island in Sweden, and home to world-famous rauks. He is mostly self-taught as a developer, and has experience working with embedded systems and hardware engineering.

Introducing Pants 2.6: Poetry support, third-party type stubs, and linter reports

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Introducing Pants 2.6: Poetry support, third-party type stubs, and linter reports

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 [https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/upgrade-tips]. Poetry support Pants now understands Poetry's pyproject.toml configuration for

Poetry support for Pants 2.6

Language Support > Python

Poetry support for Pants 2.6

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.

PyDev of the Week

PyDev of the Week

One of the core Pants maintainers, Benjy Weinberger, was recently interviewed for the PyDev of the Week feature on the Mouse vs Python blog [https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/]! Click through for more about the history of Pants, how Benjy came to be involved, his take on the project's strengths,

How we added Apple Silicon support to Pants

Release Announcements

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

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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 [https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/upgrade-tips]. Shell support Pants now supports Shell (e.g. Bash), in

It's PyCon US Time!

It's PyCon US Time!

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 [https://twitter.com/benjy] (that's me!) will be speaking about some of the cool and