@curved-television-6568 I vaguely recall you pointing out a

pants help

command that contained ALL available backends? Not just those that are currently registered? Am I imagining that? the

pants help backend

appears to be missing some

pants backends --help

right?

Wow, didn't know it could work in reverse - as

backends

isn't a goal - but

--help

is a builtin goal. Neat. And yeah, I used that to make this list: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/21065 But, for example, the

cc

backend is missing, and a few other experimental ones. I'm guessing those are not registered, and I haven't dug into what's missing

fair point, cc etc is not included either way 🙂

That could be the case - I may just have misused the API

def _print_all_backends(self, include_experimental: bool) -> None:

Ah nice to know!

the

pants help-all

json has this sort of info in it too

Yep - one of the rare cases where I was just trying to get the quick summary without using

jq

- turns out

jq

would have been faster.... sigh... it always is

pants backends —help-advanced