Do we currently have any mechanism to run a

pants

-adjacent command? As in, I have a command I want to bundle inside of pants, but without running all the pants machinery?

I wrote a plugin that does something vaguely similar, though it still uses the pants machinery as a pass through to the

invoke

app. https://github.com/st2sandbox/st2/tree/pants/pants-plugins%2Fdo_invoke

How does it work - if it’s a plugin? As in, Pants all still has to start up and whatnot, and then invoke is available?

I haven't touched it in years, so I just re-read the code to refresh myself.

invoke

is a python app, not a binary. So, it requires adding the requirement to the list of plugins to make pants install it during bootstrapping. Note that I wrote this before plugins could provide a

requirements.txt

so it could be simplified now. Then, it uses a goal rule to run a little wrapper script that runs

invoke

from the pants venv and pass all arguments to it.

Ahh, okay, yeah, that makes more sense