#general
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enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:37 PMBut it does not do this for pants_internal - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:37 PMSince its not intended to be distributed - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:38 PMjust locally used as loose source - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:38 PMDoes this make any sense? It may be odd that there are 2 ways to consume a backend, via 1-2 and via plugin sdists with entrypoints - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:40 PMFWIW the transition to distribution is just modifying the local plugin target to provide later in BUILD - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:40 PMno more - no code changes - l
limited-country-20626
09/22/2015, 9:41 PMokay, I am planning to distribute it so that was my next question - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:42 PMK - well to distribute it just start by adding provides=setup_py(...) manually to the BUILD target - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:42 PMAnd then see how much overlap there is withcontrib_plugin - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:42 PMAnd then maybe extra core - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:43 PMs/extra/extract/ - l
limited-country-20626
09/22/2015, 9:43 PMMy strong preference was to just update the pants spindle plugin. But it is now tightly-coupled with the spindle source code. - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:44 PMSo, is it useful having spindle in contrib/ in pantsbuild at all? - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:44 PMShould it just be internal if its all that tight together? - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:45 PMOr is this just Foursquare racing on HEAD - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:45 PMAnd the contrib plugin lags behind, but is stable for others? - l
limited-country-20626
09/22/2015, 9:48 PMIt is stable for others as is, with the published jars. But spindle has a self-dependency so building the spindle source has been a sticky question. This plugin I am considering would be specialized to build the spindle source, not use spindle functions - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:48 PMk - l
limited-country-20626
09/22/2015, 9:49 PMthis would be a spindle plugin to build spindle…less than ideal - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:49 PMSo - winding back - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:49 PMI'd say get it working using the 1-2 - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:50 PMAnd only after that, if you want to publish and reconsume instead of use local loose source for the plugin code, add the provides - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:50 PMBut its not clear to me why you'd ever want to do that unless you had more than 1 repo that needed the plugin - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:52 PMIOW: the 1-2 is what I'd recommend for all small pants users wanting to hack up a plugin - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:52 PMs/small/1 repo/ - l
limited-country-20626
09/22/2015, 9:52 PMThe plugin would be consumed by the OSS repo holding spindle source (say if an OSS person wanted to hack on spindle itself). - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:52 PMWhat is the OSS repo? - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:53 PMCan't that have a sub-slice that includes the plugin itself? - l
limited-country-20626
09/22/2015, 9:53 PMYes, that is an option too - e
enough-analyst-54434
09/22/2015, 9:53 PMThat's how twitter-commons does it for example