Did you know: we value and pay close attention to community feedback. As you explore Pants, know you’re always invited to offer suggestions, make requests, open PRs, edit docs, etc. Thanks for helping make Pants the most intuitive and user-friendly system for building software! See you on the Slack…
Branding can be a dangerous thing; name conventions do not always translate. There’s a whole list of these from Bimbo bread to the reason that the Vauxhall Nova (no go) doesn’t work in Spanish… and …
We in the Pants Build community have a lot of experience in helping teams evaluate and adopt Pants. And often, the first step involves helping those teams understand why Pants is the best fit for their needs (and honestly recognizing when it isn’t).
After writing about our experience with moving a mature Django app to Pants, I began wondering how difficult it would be to start a brand new Django project on Pants. While it overall wasn’t too great an undertaking to move our project over, it sure would have saved time if we had been using Pants from the beginning.
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
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 these a read or re-visit.
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.
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.
“DevOps Handbook Second Edition, available for preorder today, includes:
-Foreword from Nicole Forsgren, PhD
-15 New Case Studies
-100+ Pages of New/Updated Content
-New Afterwords from the Authors
-Additional Resources”
The ergonomic, hermetic, and user-friendly software build system for Python, Java, Go, Shell, and Scala. Pants lets you fearlessly scale up your codebase.
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