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Hello, how’s everyone here? I’m Ori and I’m a programmer at Vonage. We’re looking to adopt Pants for an existing monorepo containing multiple packages. Heard about it and it seems like a great solution!

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Hello everyone, I'm Colin, a full stack software engineer for the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. I found Pants looking for potential solutions for a python monorepo I'm working on. Nice to meet you all 😄 👋

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Hey guys. We are currently trying to convert several of our django-app repositories into one monorepo. Theoretically it makes sense to do this - however I have not yet found a 100% way to achieve this. I feel that Pants is the way to go for this, but I haven't yet connected the dots. If there is someone out there with experience in django/pants/poetry, let me know.

Hi everyone. My name is Dheera Tallapragada and I’m a software developer working for PayPal. We have a backend service, that was built several years ago now - waay before I was even at the company, that uses pants for build. I’ve just started learning about pants to see how best I can enhance our existing Pants setup to help other dev in the team.

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Hey everyone, hope you’re all doing great! I’m an SRE at an industrial AI startup - Phaidra.ai. We use pantsbuild to build our microservices mono repo with python3 and package everything using pex. Joining this channel so I can learn more about it and pick your brains from time to time 🙂

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👋 Looking for a tool to manage a mess of microrepos with no reproducible builds. Discovered pants like, 5 years ago after being handed a project that was developed by a competitor to pants. Haven't needed anything similar until now.

Ouch, sounds painful. Are you thinking about moving them to a monorepo?

Yeah. We build libraries and then publish them to a local pypi server. Then we build co-dependent services with loosely pinned constraints on packages and no constraints on service-versions; then deploy them on k8s; with no testing to validate they work together. So at any one point in time, everything has to be in alignment or it'll probably not work. Then going from database -> customer-eyeballs is a multi-layer-onion affair so everything takes literally months to do. Everyone quit once the govt said COVID was over and they can go outside (lol). So now the opponents to making it a little easier to manage are gone.

so the plan is to assimilate all the libraries into a (pants?) monorepo, and continue to publish them to the private pypi. Then one by one pull the microservices into the monorepo. Then slowly refactor things into more of a monolith. because oh lawd, some things are a bit OTT.

👋 to everyone who has hopped on here after attending our PyCon demo!

hey @happy-kitchen-89482 I just watched your talk! It looks really neat. I do embedded C (CircuitPython) and have been keeping an eye out for a new build system. got any pointers to building C with pants?

we're kinda weird because we have 1000+ final binaries that we build

Wow, that is a big, complex system!

Right now there is no C support in Pants, so it would need to be added. But the Plugin API makes that fairly straightforward.

C has the nice property that it doesn't have the concept of an upstream classpath/pythonpath, thanks to header files

I know people love to hate on header files and the preprocessor, but I am a fan TBH

As it does make some build problems more tractable, and it certainly makes remote compilation a lot more feasible

And far more amenable to concurrency

So it really depends on there being someone motivated enough to add that support...

🙂

ya, I think one thing I'd like to do is treat preprocessor defines as dependencies as well

they are heavily used in configuring a particular board's build