Funny thought: why is our dep parser internal? Why...
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bitter-ability-32190
04/04/2023, 7:45 PMFunny thought: why is our dep parser internal? Why not publish it like another tool?
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witty-crayon-22786
04/04/2023, 7:49 PMin general: public APIs have a higher maintenance burden than private APIs
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witty-crayon-22786
04/04/2023, 7:49 PMeven if the publishing was fully automated and transparent, you’d still potentially have to worry about the API you were providing to non-Pants consumers
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bitter-ability-32190
04/04/2023, 8:13 PMI think it has a lot of value though, there's a few other tools in the same space.
Since our API amounts to simply dumping JSON I wouldn't be extremely worried about breaking compatibility
bitter-ability-32190
04/04/2023, 8:13 PMIt also encourages plugins/extensions easier, since we're headed that direction
bitter-ability-32190
04/04/2023, 8:13 PMAnd I'm kinda thinking a little bit of "rewrite it in rust"
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witty-crayon-22786
04/04/2023, 9:06 PMSince our API amounts to simply dumping JSON I wouldn’t be extremely worried about breaking compatibilityBenjy needed to break compatibility recently, iirc
witty-crayon-22786
04/04/2023, 9:06 PMbut yea, i’m down with rewrite-it-in-rust. just not sure that that needs to necessarily be coupled to a decision to publish it as a separate tool.
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bitter-ability-32190
04/04/2023, 9:07 PMReturning different JSON could be behind a feature flag
bitter-ability-32190
04/04/2023, 9:07 PMEither way. Both directions are possible