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A collection of 9 posts

Challenges in choosing a Python packaging format

Challenges in choosing a Python packaging format

Alexey reviews the Python packaging landscape. You'll learn more about the options you have, their pros and cons, and how to find the best approach to distribute your Python applications.

Better CI/CD caching with Pants

Better CI/CD caching with Pants

Pants is designed to utilize fine-grained caching to speed up builds. Users are often interested in how this interacts with CI providers' own caching features, which are necessary since CI jobs typically run in fresh containers, with no direct access to previous state. In particular, we get questions about how

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.

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!

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

Release Announcements Featured

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 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

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

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.