In trying to set up pants in my team's devcontainer I attempted to install it via

bin

, but found that it didn't succeed because

bin

put up an interactive prompt:

Multiple matches found, please select one:

 [1] scie-pants-linux-x86_64
 [2] scie-pants-linux-x86_64.sha256
 Select an option:

Is there a better way of reliably installing this? Ideally I'd like to do all the bootstrapping in the devcontainer image instead of each developer having to do it individually (and eat up overlayfs quota)

Can you use the

get-pants.sh

script to bootstrap in the image? https://www.pantsbuild.org/2.20/docs/getting-started/installing-pants

This is

bin

being broken. For me, it's even worse, as it doesn't consider my current platform, and doesn't even seem to have an option to provide platform info to help guide this..

@broad-processor-92400 I'll try that approach next. The rest of my devcontainer config is all declarative in devcontainer.json, and there is a feature that allows installation of binaries via

bin

so that looked attractive compared to running a shell script, but it should be possible nonetheless

What it boils down to is downloading the correct binary from the releases on github for the current platform as “pants”.

yeah and within our codespaces that should be stable + well-defined