Hi everyone, can someone point me in the right direction to figure out the following problem? I have a monorepo, and I'm using pants to create python distributions. Everything works great. But now I want a particular distribution to build a native extension. FWIU, I would need to create a custom setup.py script, but if I do that, I lose the ability for pants to automatically determine which files to include. I'm also not sure how to specify a specific setup.py script (what if I have two setup.py scripts, how does pants choose which one to include?). Ideally, there would be a way to customize the setup.py generation to include custom code for building the extension. Any ideas?

Yeah, the relevant docs are here, but you’re correct that you must write your own setup.py or equivalent if you have native extensions. Currently the generated setup.py is an all-or-nothing proposition, there is no way to merge some generated data in with some handwritten data.

I see, thanks!

But this is one more use case to justify an overhaul of the setup.py generator