Genuine question: why is the pants build system ca...
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03/30/2023, 2:59 AMGenuine question: why is the pants build system called pants?
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03/30/2023, 3:16 AMPython Ants. The 0th generation of Pants evolved from an ant build system for a Java codebase. It was a bit of Python that generated many ephemeral granular ant.xml files for a mono-repo and then recursively invoked ant on them.
enough-analyst-54434
03/30/2023, 3:18 AMBasically the most obvious possible name after discarding PyAnts as wasting a golden acronym.
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