question/feedback: target aliases are nice, but limited since they are untyped. I have a

pex_binary

target deep in the filesystem like

foo/bar/baz:bin

and I would love to, at the top-level, say

target(name="baz", dependencies=["foo/bar/baz:bin"])

in order to enable

pants run :baz

. But I get

NoApplicableTargetsException: No applicable files or targets matched. The `run` goal works with these target types:

  * pex_binary
  * python_requirement
  * python_source
  * python_test
  * run_shell_command

However, you only specified target arguments with these target types:

  * target

is there another way to do this?

Have you looked at the ‘cli.alias’ option? pants.toml: [cli.alias] baz = “foo/bar/baz:bin” Then: pants run baz

Ooh that looks great! Thanks!