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purple-plastic-57801
03/14/2023, 12:07 AMDumb question: Can pants manage the version of python for you? For instance in recent versions of rules_python for bazel it will hermetically manage the python toolchain for you (if you configure it that way)
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wide-midnight-78598
03/14/2023, 12:08 AMCough @bitter-ability-32190 cough
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purple-plastic-57801
03/14/2023, 12:09 AMAnd apologies for the "in bazel!" but like.. trying to convince people NOT to bazel 😉
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wide-midnight-78598
03/14/2023, 12:09 AMLol, no worries - I was just mentioning Josh because this was a topic of discussion earlier today
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purple-plastic-57801
03/14/2023, 12:11 AMc
curved-television-6568
03/14/2023, 12:12 AMAs of very recently, yes! 😉
https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/18352
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purple-plastic-57801
03/14/2023, 12:13 AM🥰 Is 2.16 stated to come out soon?
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curved-television-6568
03/14/2023, 12:13 AMwe’ve got the first alpha out last week, so it’s on track.,.
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purple-plastic-57801
03/14/2023, 12:13 AMWell
I'll see myself out.
I'm just asking bleeding edge questions. Might as well go camping for a few weeks and then come back.
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curved-television-6568
03/14/2023, 12:14 AMyou’re welcome any time 🙂
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purple-plastic-57801
03/14/2023, 12:15 AMI mean it is validating to know that my questions are "solved/answered/addressed" aka they are real valuable use cases.
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busy-vase-39202
03/14/2023, 11:44 AMYou're asking good questions. You're welcome to keep asking about things you have concrete need of. We appreciate hearing more about what users need, and what the driving use case is.