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i’d have to defer to p l for the specifics but he’s in iceland for the week

we do have a chunk of pants.ini that is explicit pinning of specific versions

but the majority of our transitive deps are still resolved, not explicit

Is anyone interested in meeting at Square in SF on Tuesday to have a work day? I've got a line on a big conference room now, I just wanted to gauge the interest.

<@U051221NF>: thoughts on allowing for this?: ```
$ ./pants cache --read-from=['blah'] test examples/tests/scala/::
INFO] Detected git repository at /Users/stuhood/src/pants on branch master

10:24:50 00:00 [main]
               (To run a reporting server: ./pants server)
10:24:50 00:00   [bootstrap]
10:24:50 00:00   [setup]
10:24:50 00:00     [parse]
               Unknown goal(s): cache

10:24:51 00:01   [complete]
               FAILURE
```

why not multiple —read-from’s to define the list sequence? e.g. —read-from=blah -&gt; [‘blah’]; —read-from=blah —read-from=bleh -&gt; [‘blah’, ‘bleh’]

<https://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html#action>

shouldn’t the ‘append’ action do this?

I thought that pants used a library from twitter.commons for doing argument parsing

i could be wrong about that tho, haven't looked in quite a while

if you’re talking about twitter.common.app, that’s just optparse under the hood

afaict tho from a quick grep there’s lots of argparse usage

both optparse and argparse support this method of argument passing

sorry, i lied. it works on the cli already.

```./pants test.junit --test='org.pantsbuild.example.hello.greet.GreetingTest#mentionGreeteeFromResource' --test='org.pantsbuild.example.hello.greet.GreetingTest#shouldSayHello' examples/tests/java/org/pantsbuild/example/hello/greet```

I think there may be some cases where it doesn't work: <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/1524>