lahosken

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   by lahosken 12y ago

   The BUILD file format looks a lot like Python code calling some functions. http://pantsbuild.github.io/first_tutorial.html#build-files . It'd be great to have something more readable. For what it's worth, Google&#
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   by lahosken 12y ago

   To skip slow tests (except when you want them), you put them into separate targets and then don't invoke them on the command line (except when you want them). At the risk of tossing you in the deep end with a link to a big build config
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   by lahosken 12y ago

   Maybe, maybe not. As your codebase grows, it's likely to turn into separate parts with some common code. Pants can get you faster incremental builds: quickly figuring out what needs building, building just that. If sbt is quick for yo
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   by lahosken 12y ago

   When you invoke Pants, you pass in "goals" (roughly, the verbs/actions you want to take) and "targets" (roughly, the things you want to act upon, often piles of source code). If you usually invoke './pants
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   by lahosken 12y ago

   It's not just "by Twitter" anymore. Since about 2012, we've had some great contributions from other organizations. http://pantsbuild.github.io/announce_201409.html has some history.