I feel like the docs are also missing a high-level...
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I feel like the docs are also missing a high-level intro on what Pants like to use once it's set up. The 'How does Pants work?' page describes a bunch of features. I'd really like something that's more like: • Pants uses BUILD files to indicate the individual things (targets) that need to be built • You can build all things, or a subset of them by running these commands: .... • You can e.g. package a python module and add it to a docker image, or run a shell script. • You can run other actions (goals) on targets .... etc. I think otherwise you need to dig into targets and goals and subsystems and there's a lot of detail which is a bit overwhelming. Just thinking out loud here anyway - apologies if i've missed a page somewhere
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I think this is good information, and I don't think there's any need to apologize. Because, if you've missed a page somewhere, maybe that page (if it exists) wasn't prominent enough 🤷 Would you consider spinning this into a GH discussion, and maybe we can see what's covered, what's missing, and figure out a more reliable getting-started process
Overall, I think the Getting Started provides a decent step-by-step https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/getting-started But, with Pants, there is definitely the need to read a lot of the docs to grok what's going on, and if nothing else - maybe there could be a friendlier way to point people where to go on landing on the docs.