Do plugins support call-by-name in the latest rele...
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silly-queen-7197
10/17/2025, 6:34 PMDo plugins support call-by-name in the latest release? I recall seeing a note about wanting to deprecate call-by-type soon.
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wide-midnight-78598
10/17/2025, 6:35 PMAre you referring to your own in-repo plugins?
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silly-queen-7197
10/17/2025, 6:44 PMSorry I should have clarified, yes
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wide-midnight-78598
10/17/2025, 6:45 PMThen yes, if you migrate to call-by-name it should work. You can test it out by taking an innocuous single-line change and seeing if it still works after migrating
wide-midnight-78598
10/17/2025, 6:45 PMOr yolo, of course
wide-midnight-78598
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fast-nail-55400
10/17/2025, 7:10 PM@silly-queen-7197 : I assume your plugins work with only one Pants version at a time?
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wide-midnight-78598
10/17/2025, 7:12 PMWouldn't it? As an in-repo plugin?
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fast-nail-55400
10/17/2025, 7:13 PMI assume so. I’m just confirming that aspect.
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fast-nail-55400
10/17/2025, 7:14 PMMotivation for my question: There was some refactoring of the API as part of the call-by-name migration. Plugins which have to deal with multiple Pants versions from same code base might have to adjust to different APIs.
But probably not in this case.
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silly-queen-7197
10/17/2025, 7:18 PMI actually haven’t written any plugins yet 😛 (well nothing non-trivial and that was a while ago). I’m just trying to figure out whats expected to work since I recall running into really cryptic errors or just not seeing expected changes
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