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
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…
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
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
With Pants 2.7 comes a new experimental backend for building Docker images and linting Dockerfiles. This backend offers a seamless experience when bundling your code and files into Docker images - In a single invocation, Pants will build the code artifacts that need to be embedded into the Docker…
My experience contributing YAPF formatter support to Pants 2.7
With the latest 2.7 release, Pants now supports the YAPF Python autoformatter, 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 ./pants fmt: > ./pants fmt project/app.py 11:27:…
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. Python tool lockfilesPants now pins every dependency used when installing Python tools like Black, Pytest, and…
Meet our newest Maintainer: Andreas Stenius
The Pants open-source project exists and thrives thanks to the efforts of its various contributors, who do everything from system design to coding to updating our documentation to answering questions on our Slack workspace. Within the larger group of official Contributors are a smaller group of Maintainers - people with…