Hi I am trying out the SCIE pants and specify pants 2 16 0rc Pants #general

Hi, I am trying out the SCIE pants and specify pan...

bumpy-spoon-55438

04/05/2023, 3:41 AM

Hi, I am trying out the SCIE pants and specify pants 2.16.0rc0 in pants.toml. This file is put under a subdirectory of my repo so before I have an env var PANTS_TOML to indicate that. however I found this is not going to work. If I move pants.toml to the top level it would work.

bumpy-spoon-55438

04/05/2023, 3:42 AM

The problem I am seeing is

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The `pants.toml` at /Users/xxxx/xxxx/xxxxx/pants.toml has no `pants_version` configured in the `GLOBAL` section.
Would you like set `pants_version` to the latest stable release? (Y/n):

bumpy-spoon-55438

04/05/2023, 3:43 AM

and if I select no, it would crash with

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ERROR: Failed to establish atomic directory /Users/xxxx/Library/Caches/nce/142382d6e3ac0960e7d4f81b9df9de9559b7ac698db13d20cbd0e4aa57f68c1d/locks/configure-a04b16475909adc53343e9b2a72885b57d783b5743b4fbcdad57d8d31e81ace7. Population of work directory failed: Boot binding command failed: exit status: 1

enough-analyst-54434

04/05/2023, 3:52 AM

The scie pants binary does in fact require

pants.toml

to be at the root of the repo as things stand. It is true the scie pants binary should be fully backwards compatible with the

./pants

script and so this is a bug, but I think it's also true that we've never encountered someone not placing

pants.toml

at the root of the repo. So, I'd file an issue in the pantsbuild/scie-pants repo, but you should also strongly reconsider setting up your repo this way. What is the motivation?

bumpy-spoon-55438

04/05/2023, 3:54 AM

we are trying to share the building tool among different repositories so would like to keep them using the same one instead of each using its own pants setup

enough-analyst-54434

04/05/2023, 3:54 AM

Ok, that is definitely not expected or encouraged.

enough-analyst-54434

04/05/2023, 3:55 AM

If the

pants_version

is the same, the tool is shared.

enough-analyst-54434

04/05/2023, 3:55 AM

As far as wanting to shared the rest of the config ... Definitely a new one. 1st in 13 years.

enough-analyst-54434

04/05/2023, 3:56 AM

At any rate, as I said this is a bug; so please file an issue so it's tracked.

bumpy-spoon-55438

04/05/2023, 3:56 AM

sure. will do

enough-analyst-54434

04/05/2023, 3:57 AM

You probably want to mention this fact about your repos if you need to report other issues since it is so non standard.

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