#general
- e
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09/22/2015, 9:23 PMJust wanted to check my understanding of where it stands - e
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09/22/2015, 9:23 PMThanks - all clear now - l
limited-country-20626
09/22/2015, 9:28 PMif I want to make my repo aware of
target, how do I do that short of importing that code? Addingcontrib_plugin
to the pants.ini<http://internal_backend.XXX|internal_backend.XXX>
isn’t enoughbackend_packages - e
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09/22/2015, 9:28 PMpythonpath too - e
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09/22/2015, 9:28 PMthis is a local plugin? - e
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09/22/2015, 9:28 PMie it's a 1-2 for local: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/master/pants.ini#L15 - l
limited-country-20626
09/22/2015, 9:29 PMI want to build a local plugin (essentially a minor update of our existing spindle plugin) - e
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09/22/2015, 9:30 PMI'm slightly confused / my answer was off base - e
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09/22/2015, 9:30 PMYou mean you want to use the pantsbuild-only pants_internal
target?contrib_plugin - e
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09/22/2015, 9:30 PMin your repo - to help build pants plugins sdists? - e
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09/22/2015, 9:30 PMwith entrypoints? - l
limited-country-20626
09/22/2015, 9:32 PMwe made changes to the spindle plugin that tightly couple it to the spindle source code. I don’t really think that pushing those changes back up to pants master makes a lot of sense. So I am experimenting with distributing the spindle source code with a pants.ini that loads a new, foursquare-generated pants plugin. - l
limited-country-20626
09/22/2015, 9:33 PMbut I want to build that plugin in our monorepo, so I need to be able to build
targetcontrib_plugin - e
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09/22/2015, 9:33 PMand that plugin is local to the repo using it or internally sdist/wheeled? - l
limited-country-20626
09/22/2015, 9:34 PMFor now, although the plan is to distribute it and have a OSS pants-style repo a’la twitter-commons - e
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09/22/2015, 9:34 PMso -
is only about distributioncontrib_plugin - e
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09/22/2015, 9:34 PMYou don't want that now - e
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09/22/2015, 9:34 PMthere are 2 ways, local plugin, pythonpath+backend_packages 1-2 - e
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09/22/2015, 9:35 PMIff you want to distribute the plugin, then you need some version ofcontrib_plugin - e
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09/22/2015, 9:35 PMBut that's just a shortcut tailored to pants, so you don't want it - e
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09/22/2015, 9:35 PMYou might want to ape it though, with foursquare custom names, etc - l
limited-country-20626
09/22/2015, 9:36 PM^what I have hacked together this afternoon - l
limited-country-20626
09/22/2015, 9:36 PMbut wondered if something was better - e
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09/22/2015, 9:36 PMBetter than the 1-2? - l
limited-country-20626
09/22/2015, 9:36 PMno basically imported in the contrib target stuff - e
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09/22/2015, 9:36 PMYou don't need want that fwict though - e
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09/22/2015, 9:37 PMYou are not distributing a plugin - e
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09/22/2015, 9:37 PMYou're consuming a local loose source plugin - aka backend - e
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09/22/2015, 9:37 PMFor example - e
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09/22/2015, 9:37 PMPants distributes several plugins