Hi folks, we have a fairly vanilla repo and want t...
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wide-energy-11069
12/31/2025, 12:34 AMHi folks, we have a fairly vanilla repo and want to enable ruff per https://www.pantsbuild.org/stable/docs/python/overview/linters-and-formatters
but it seems that
pants.backend.experimental.python.lint.ruff.checkpants.backend.experimental.python.lint.ruff.format Copy code
% pants help backends | rg ruff
[ ] pants.backend.build_files.fmt.ruff [pants]
% pants --version
2.30.0✅ 1
wide-energy-11069
12/31/2025, 12:41 AMah figured it out. they are in experimental, thus need help-advanced to show them:
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% pants help-advanced backends | rg ruff
[ ] pants.backend.build_files.fmt.ruff [pants]
[*] pants.backend.experimental.python.lint.ruff.check [pants]
<https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/>
[*] pants.backend.experimental.python.lint.ruff.format [pants]
<https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/>
[ ] pants.backend.experimental.tools.trufflehog [pants]
Registers trufflehog rules.w
wide-midnight-78598
12/31/2025, 12:13 PMHmm, that's silly - experimental backends themselves shouldn't be carved off under "advanced"
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wide-energy-11069
01/02/2026, 8:20 AMLooks like that was intentional - https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/18867
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wide-midnight-78598
01/02/2026, 1:05 PMYeah, I remember the change. However, a couple of years later, I think it's silly. The concept of "experimental" has drifted since then I think, so some of the backends have more stability than the name would suggest
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wide-energy-11069
01/02/2026, 8:03 PMcc @curved-television-6568 (not urgent) whether we should revisit this.
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