Hi all! I have a maybe very basic question. Why is there no

pants build

goal? Specifically, I am looking to use

adhoc_tool

for some of my build pipeline (in the spirit of incremental adoption), and I'd like to just build the output and look at it, for the sake of verifying what I'm doing. Am I missing something obvious here? Is there another goal that would do this? (I feel stupid for even asking this...)

I haven't used

adhoc_tool

but are you looking for

pants <https://www.pantsbuild.org/stable/docs/python/goals/package|package>

?

pants package

helps, yeah, I can then un-

tar

the resulting package and look at it. But this seems like kind of a detour... It'd be cool to just look at the output of a target by itself.

Gotcha- I don't have the solution to what you are looking for, but looks like there are some discussions of

adhoc_tool

in the slack that might be helpful.

Thanks! 🙂 Do you happen to know where these discussions take place? Is this in the plugins channel, or is there any other place? I'm kinda new to this slack workspace, apologies if that's a stupid question

Oh no worries, most questions/discussions go in the #C046T6T9U channel AFAIK. Good luck!

Thank you! 🙏