Question about the JSON schema store generator:
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wide-midnight-78598
03/27/2025, 3:54 PMQuestion about the JSON schema store generator:
https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/d9860df0bffb29dec40fe530d58b143d416fe4e2/build-support/bin/generate_json_schema.py#L10
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pants help-allwide-midnight-78598
03/27/2025, 3:57 PMI recall checking this at some point, and I thought it only applied to the active backends (which is how I was able to use it for ... something or another)
wide-midnight-78598
03/27/2025, 4:01 PMAnd the intent of this question is to determine how we can activate all backends (auditing purposes) without necessarily having the dependencies all of them require readily available
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broad-processor-92400
03/27/2025, 5:56 PMCurrently active ones. The docs site does a double invocation to first determine what backends exist and then generate the help for all.
See https://github.com/pantsbuild/pantsbuild.org/blob/9825198311015ebe58474ef127302c47dbeb78b3/.github/workflows/sync_docs.yml#L29-L34
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wide-midnight-78598
03/27/2025, 5:57 PMOh, that's a neat idea
wide-midnight-78598
03/27/2025, 5:57 PMSo help-all will always show the backends that exist, and then using those to activate and re-run...
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broad-processor-92400
03/27/2025, 5:57 PMIām not sure that solves the Python-level dependency problem (as in, any requirements that need to be installed into pants Python venv will still be installed, I imagine), but it appears to not require any system binaries ?
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wide-midnight-78598
03/27/2025, 5:59 PMAh, okay, maybe that's because it's a BuiltinGoal, and it can bypass those (or, GHA generally has like... 50 binaries available anyways š )
Sweet, thanks! I'm gonna give this a shot
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