Is there a suggested way to get a reproducible pants install in the prescence of thirdparty requirements? For example: with a

requirements.txt

next to

register.py

, or even with

[GLOBAL].plugins

. Background: I just realised today that the

plugins = ["hdrhistogram"]

line we have in our

pants.ci.toml

on recommendation from https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/using-pants-in-ci seems to be unpinned. Presumably I could go and replace everything with transitively pinned

==

requirements, but that feels... unsatisfying; is there another way?

No, we ought to allow plugins from a lockfile but no one ever did it

Yeah, that seems like something we should definitely do

yea, we got one step further by allowing plugins to point at a

requirements.txt

file to install along with it, next logical step is to support lockfiles. 🙂

Thanks, filed https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/20166