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What was the value proposition of pants? I'm no fan of sbt, but having sunk the cost of getting comfortable with it, what can pants offer?

• harryh 10y ago
  Small compilation units (generally a single directory of files) and a bottom up acyclic specification of dependencies between them.
• hocuspocus 10y ago
  You can check out this talk, given by a Foursquare engineer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukqke8iTuH0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukqke8iTuH0 This is pretty much the same concept as Blaze/Bazel or Buck, but from Twitter.
  • harryh 10y ago
    Don't capitalize the S!! (sorry. pet peeve.)
    • hocuspocus 10y ago
      My bad, fixed :)
      • harryh 10y ago
        :)