✋ Can I use pants to figure out the longest chain of dependencies? I'd like to find a way to figure out the "most depended on" dependency.

pants peek ::

gives JSON output that includes the dependencies, and this can be turned into a graph and processed. E.g. load into NetworkX or Neo4j and run arbitrary graph analytics there. (NB. this has limitations for third-party requirements though, e.g.

requests

depends on

urllib3

, but pants isn't aware of this: there's no pants-level link from a

requests

python_requirement

to a

urllib3

one https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/12733)

Do you know of an example using neo4j? I haven't used that in a bit

nope, I don't

Pants isn't aware of this... Yet! I've been noodling on this