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It is different in many ways from a virtualenv

(Hence our motivation to write vend--we think there's a use case for a lot of people to translate pants python dependencies into regular virtualenvs)

To be clear though - the _intent_ is it acts identically to a virtualenv

So the pex/vend thing has benn slightly frustrating for those in the know and confusing for those out of the know

virtualenv is not a specific requirement for me actually, i had no idea pants run didn't actually package the target sources into the chroot

is that a new thing? like, later than .24?

Well, I'm not sure of facts, but I am sure pex 1.+ allows hard link or symlink

Pants may or may not have that toggle plumbed

Did we ever decide on/implement a way to lookup a target’s BUILD alias?

although actually i think everyone here who uses pycharm will still want a venv

and actually i'd still want a venv so vim-jedi can do the right thing

but it sounds like my needs are somewhat specific

you requirement makes sense - and I don't think its that specific

lots of folks want autoreload for lots of langs

<@U083H6LRL>: afaik there are plans to add python support to the pants intellij plugin, which should provide pycharm integration w/o having to worry about manual venv management. doesn’t help the jedi case tho.

<@U053HHEDG>: its not so much deciding on a way - pretty much just one way to do it - its just not been tackled

<@U054MQUPL>: that would still be a huge hit here so i'll take it :stuck_out_tongue:

To be fair, <@U04S45AHA>, it might be impossible to disambiguate if the same target type maps to two different aliases

maybe i'll poke around and see if i can figure out a clean way to transform a cached python chroot into an honest to god virtualenv

You can reverse map it from the build file context, but that reverse map can give you multiple results

imo, IDE auto-completion is cheating - will just make you soft in the long run :simple_smile:

This code would live in BuildConfiguration

Which should already be erroring on dup aliases