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Pants Build Open Source Community Newsletter - Issue #2

Pants Build Open Source Community Newsletter - Issue #2
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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…

Pants in the News
Awesome Go Weekly - Issue 286, Nov 11, 2021
Awesome Go Weekly - Issue 286, Nov 11, 2021
Featuring Pants 2.8’s new Golang support
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Open-Source Project of the Week: Pants
Open-Source Project of the Week: Pants
Software Development News
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Pants is not pants, open source build system is good - Open Source Insider
Pants is not pants, open source build system is good - Open Source Insider
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 …
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Evaluating Build Systems
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).
As you may expect, organizations evaluating
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New
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.
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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
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Docs improvements
Docs improvements
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.
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Releases
Pants 2.8 adds Autoflake & Pyupgrade, Docker publishing, Golang, PEP 517 publishing, and Google Cloud Functions
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2.9.0.dev4
2.9.0.dev4
A scalable build tool for large, complex, heterogeneous repos.
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Language Support
Pants 2.8 adds experimental Golang support
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.
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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.
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Community
Overheard
Add Your Organization!
Pants Resources
Ecosystem
IT Revolution on Twitter: "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"
IT Revolution on Twitter: "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"
“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”
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Parting Thoughts
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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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