so i pinpoint this exact problem, and just say- what if all your code was in the same repository? so that all changes to the shared code has to be reflected across the codebase?

i notice at that point people start to realize the problem with excessive maven projects

Hi all, I am new to Pants. I joined the slack channel to investigate about Pant's support for building C/C++ embedded project. I see only Java, Python and Scala are featured on Pants website. There is no sample for C/C++. At my work I am DevOps in CI/CD helping team to investigate a new scalable build framework for their monorepo huge repository. My team have been investigating Bazel as suggested by the eng client team. Late in the game, Bazel still have yet to support multiplatform build, ie. building target for multiple platforms : PPC, x86_64 using 1 or more toolchain with a single bazel build invocation. Does Pants support that? Thank you in advance.

pants only supports multiplatform builds for Python, and only if cross-platform wheels have already been built for dependencies.

so: no, not really.

also, our C/C++ support is basically alpha quality.

I see. Thank you for the quick answer. If I may know, any other build framework tool inspired by Google's Blaze besides bazel that can support C/C++. I know Gradle for one and that is not based on Blaze.

@rough-dog-96241 I am putting up a node 8.x binary branch as we are speaking, but I don't anticipate to promote node 8.x to default until it is declared LTS, around october time

@brash-cricket-7489 👍

most recent c/c++ dev projects that I’ve seen seems to leverage either cmake or make+autoconf/automake et al

it’d be cool to add better support directly into pants tho

anybody can help to commit this PR? https://github.com/pantsbuild/binaries/pull/26

adds node 6.11.1 and 8.2.1 to binaries

I think a pantsbuild admin is needed to invoke the bintray sync tool to fully land that

yea, i can.

@rough-minister-58256 : were you looking?

neg, I don’t have perms

ok

@brash-cricket-7489 : synced to bintray

@witty-crayon-22786 thanks

How are people here doing CI with pants and a large mono repo? We are using https://github.com/square/kochiku and hate it.

twitter uses a series of scripts that run `changed`/`filter`/`minimize` to select some useful roots to run, and then invokes those in parallel in a distributed test runner.

the scripts are nothing to write home about (we're hoping to speed them up significantly with [the daemon](http://www.pantsbuild.org/invoking.html#the-pants-daemon)), but the distributed test runner is neat.

bits and pieces are open source, but not as a cohesive package like kochiku.

in the medium term we hope to implement support for [remoting](https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/labels/remoting) directly in pants, to allow a single pants task to "do the right thing" when you just run

./pants test ::

in a loop.

yeah the distributed test runner is what I am trying to figure out now

no open source projects seem to fit the bill. except maybe jenkins with pipelines?

not sure if it’s ready for external use yet, but our latest implementation of this is opensrc’d here: https://github.com/scootdev/scoot

couldn’t hurt to file an issue expressing interest and seeing whether or not they’d recommend consuming it yet.