i want to repackage some of the pants rust code probably som Pants #development

i want to repackage some of the pants rust code (p...

chilly-magazine-21545

08/20/2023, 2:37 AM

i want to repackage some of the pants rust code (probably something like

src/rust/engine/{fs,process_execution,process_executor}/

) for other rust programs; for example, a few years ago i wrote scala bindings for snapshot manipulation and process execution as part of https://github.com/cosmicexplorer/upc. iirc this use case is intentionally not supported so i understand the API will remain unstable etc--just wanted to give a heads up in case someone else was working on this already

chilly-magazine-21545

08/20/2023, 2:40 AM

i would publish it under the same license, with attribution etc ofc

chilly-magazine-21545

08/20/2023, 2:44 AM

in particular i had been working on https://github.com/cosmicexplorer/medusa-zip which is a really natural fit for the virtual fs magic pants does

chilly-magazine-21545

08/20/2023, 2:50 AM

and after seeing in particular https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/19424 recently from @broad-processor-92400 it seemed like there are also caching optimizations in the works e.g. hardinks to large files that i would want to take advantage of instead of reimplementing by hand in my own code

chilly-magazine-21545

08/20/2023, 2:51 AM

but again i understand this is unsupported

chilly-magazine-21545

08/20/2023, 2:52 AM

context at https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko/issues/781#issuecomment-1685151385

chilly-magazine-21545

08/20/2023, 2:57 AM

nobody is gonna use this code to be clear i'm just messin around atm

chilly-magazine-21545

08/20/2023, 3:32 AM

will be at https://github.com/cosmicexplorer/pants-rs