Why there is no

pants check --skip-javac

and

pants check --skip-scalac

for java and scala?

Why not use https://www.pantsbuild.org/dev/reference/goals/check#only ?

I need to check everything except javac

Given there is no one I know of stewarding the JVM backends, seems probable that skip options equivalent to the

—mypy-skip

option were just overlooked.

yeah, I might do that, just wanted to make sure this was not intentional

just wanted to make sure this was not intentional

Understood. I would venture at this point in time that many design deficiencies in Pants are probably from lack of ongoing stewardship than from intention.