For some reason I don’t see 2.18.0rc0 or 2.19.0dev0 on https://pypi.org/project/pantsbuild.pants/#history

FYI, the release process is changing in 2.18: github releases is now where pants is published, and 2.17 is the last release that publishes to PyPI. For example, the assets on https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/releases/tag/release_2.19.0.dev0 are now how one gets that version of pants. This all happens via the new "pants" launcher, and isn't supported with the old

./pants

script. For 2.19, you'll need to have a sufficiently new version of the launcher too (

SCIE_BOOT=update pants

).

aaaaaaah got it, thanks!