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  • b

    better-park-26723

    01/28/2016, 12:00 AM
    The file isn't a target, a goal, or a product
  • b

    better-park-26723

    01/28/2016, 12:00 AM
    what do you call it?
  • r

    rough-minister-58256

    01/28/2016, 12:00 AM
    an output?
  • w

    witty-crayon-22786

    01/28/2016, 12:00 AM
    a product.
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:01 AM
    No, it's not really a product
  • r

    rough-minister-58256

    01/28/2016, 12:01 AM
    its the product of the build
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:01 AM
    There's no generic name for it, it depends on the task. Traditionally outputs that are meant to be consumed externally go into 
    dist/
  • b

    better-park-26723

    01/28/2016, 12:01 AM
    Well, it's also the purpose of a build, but I wouldn't call it a goal just because of English simple smile
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:01 AM
    So you'll see bundles, pexes, etc
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:01 AM
    I tend to call them "distributables"
  • r

    rough-minister-58256

    01/28/2016, 12:01 AM
    ‘artifacts'
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:02 AM
    Artifacts is also okay, though not to be confused with the "artifact cache"
  • w

    witty-crayon-22786

    01/28/2016, 12:02 AM
    @bored-art-40741: 
    self.context.products
    is the product map... it contains products, no?
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:02 AM
    ...which effectively caches products
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:02 AM
    Yes, those are products
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:02 AM
    But I think @better-park-26723 is talking about like, a jar that you build
  • r

    rough-minister-58256

    01/28/2016, 12:02 AM
    ‘thingies’ and ‘doodads'
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:02 AM
    There is no overarching term
  • r

    rough-minister-58256

    01/28/2016, 12:02 AM
    is what I usually refer to them to, formally speaking
  • b

    better-park-26723

    01/28/2016, 12:02 AM
    Yes, if I build a file "foo.jar" I don't think that file actually does appear in self.context.products
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:03 AM
    Technically it appears in several places there, but it really depends on the task
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:03 AM
    There are sort of "leaf" tasks that product things you're actually expected to interact with
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:03 AM
    e.g. 
    bundle
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:03 AM
    And they go in 
    dist/
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:03 AM
    And we call them whatever they are
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:03 AM
    bundles, jars, PEXes
  • w

    witty-crayon-22786

    01/28/2016, 12:03 AM
    it doesn't go into context.products automatically... a task would need to put it there.
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:04 AM
    Right, once again I think @better-park-26723 is asking specifically about the output of a build
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:04 AM
    For example @better-park-26723 the output of just running 
    ./pants compile ...
    is nothing
  • b

    bored-art-40741

    01/28/2016, 12:04 AM
    Pants is opaquely, internally compiling and caching and creating products
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