We're pleased to announce Pants 2.10.0, the latest release of Pantsbuild, the scalable and ergonomic build system. To update, set pants_version = "2.10.0" in your pants.toml. See upgrade tips, including the update-build-files goal to automate some of the upgrade. Multiple Python user lockfilesThe community's top-voted…
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...…
Pants's codegen support solves one of the biggest problems with code generation: how to make sure that local developers, CI, and production are using the same generated code?…
This month, the Pants core maintainers voted to invite Alexey Tereshenkov to become a Maintainer. This is a trusted role earned through demonstrating a long-term interest in Pants, by people who make regular contributions for some time and who plan to continue to do so. Maintainers conduct code reviews of…
Alliterations aside, this post discusses the new PyOxidizer integration coming in Pants 2.10 for packaging Python applications.…
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...…