Hey everybody. I’m wondering if Pants addresses the different architectures we’re having nowadays - mostly amd64, arm32 and arm64 I guess … Interesting is how target builds are handled and if mixed architecture remote caching and execution is supported. Anyways, I’d assume this is affecting already a couple teams and will be more relevant in the future - ao any insights/thoughts on this?

Remote caching and execution should handle this seamlessly - the arch is part of the cache key

So it’ll be transparent somehow?

More generally, have you looked at the Environments feature? https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/environments

Not yet, thx

Huh, looks like the remote execution options are not EnvironmentAware, and I would expect them to be. @witty-crayon-22786?

The expectation that that was encoding is that there is one remote execution provider, which then hosts multiple environments.

Hmmm, that seems harder to set up than the alternative

Yes, all of them support having multiple types of workers connected, usually selected via the "platform properties" (which are configurable per environment)

I was just thinking to click a ARM and x86 VM to have two architecturea covered… assuming that’s a feasible option