Pants supports PEP 517

By Benjy Weinberger in Language Support > Python on

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…

Streamline your Docker builds with Pants

By Benjy Weinberger in Tools > Docker on

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

By Andreas Stenius in Release Announcements on

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…