would it be possible to package pants itself as a ...
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better-yacht-90735
08/23/2023, 1:52 PMwould it be possible to package pants itself as a pex binary?
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curved-television-6568
08/23/2023, 1:54 PMb
better-yacht-90735
08/23/2023, 1:55 PMI only saw the tarballs
better-yacht-90735
08/23/2023, 1:55 PMthanks!
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curved-television-6568
08/23/2023, 1:56 PMthe release packaging are going through some changes where we are moving away from the PyPI distribution model, as we don’t expect it to be consumed as a regular python dist any way
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better-yacht-90735
08/23/2023, 1:56 PMgood stuff
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curved-television-6568
08/23/2023, 1:57 PMso the pex-es are a >=2.18 thing (it would seem, @bitter-ability-32190 is the expert here)
curved-television-6568
08/23/2023, 1:59 PMoh, nvm the last, maybe it was just some random 2.17 release that was missing the pex files… I see them for older versions as. well
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bitter-ability-32190
08/23/2023, 1:59 PMWhy do you ask? @better-yacht-90735
bitter-ability-32190
08/23/2023, 2:00 PM@curved-television-6568 those were the "universal" PEXs, I wouldn't recommend those
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better-yacht-90735
08/23/2023, 2:02 PM@bitter-ability-32190 I want to use pants as a part of a yocto if you are familiar with that. Basically we have a build system for aarch64 linux that we want to create some python packages for that we can then install. But we prefer to create the packages on the fly instead of using a private pypi repo as that will simplify things a lot.
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bitter-ability-32190
08/23/2023, 2:08 PMGotcha. So you'd wanna build the PEX yourself?
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better-yacht-90735
08/23/2023, 2:08 PMpreferably I would just use the already built PEX aarch64 binary
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bitter-ability-32190
08/23/2023, 2:09 PMAh, excellent
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better-yacht-90735
08/23/2023, 2:09 PMI was just unaware that it existed 🙂
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bitter-ability-32190
08/23/2023, 2:09 PM🎉
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better-yacht-90735
08/23/2023, 2:18 PMis pants.cp39-linux_x86_64.pex not supposed to bundle its own python interpreter?
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$ ./pants.cp39-linux_x86_64.pex
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bitter-ability-32190
08/23/2023, 2:19 PMNo, that's what the pants binary launcher is for
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better-yacht-90735
08/23/2023, 2:19 PMah
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bitter-ability-32190
08/23/2023, 2:19 PMWe may publish the bundles thing in the future, but not today
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better-yacht-90735
08/23/2023, 2:20 PMalright, now I sort of understand what the pants binary launcher is
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bitter-ability-32190
08/23/2023, 2:20 PMHaha. It downloads Python 3.9 and uses it for running Pants
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better-yacht-90735
08/23/2023, 2:26 PMHow would I use the pants launcher to execute pants.cp39-linux_x86_64.pex ?
I do this
/home/ubuntu/bin/pants ./pants.cp39-linux_x86_64.pexbetter-yacht-90735
08/23/2023, 2:29 PMI am aware there is a pants binary launcher but I don't think that is the pants command, I assume that would run pants with the stable binary.
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curved-television-6568
08/23/2023, 2:56 PMyou don’t pass the pex to the launcher, and yes, the binary launcher is the
pantscurved-television-6568
08/23/2023, 2:57 PMthe launcher manages the downloading and installation of pants for you based on which platform you are using and version you have in
pants.tomlb
better-yacht-90735
08/23/2023, 2:58 PMOh so I should not use the pex files directly? Just to be clear
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curved-television-6568
08/23/2023, 2:58 PMyea, normally you only download the launcher and run that
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bitter-ability-32190
08/23/2023, 3:56 PMSorry, we kinda worked backwards here 🙈
Most of this is abstracted from you, but you asked about the PEX so we missed the forest for the trees
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