Following up on my questions above, as i progress in the exploration - 1. Our project runs on both linux and macos. The requirements lock is a bit different on those systems (we use platform=='Darwin' inside requirements.txt for some packages). What is the right way to treat different lock files with pants? 2. I saw that currently there is no option tto invoke cross platform remote execution. E.g. can't call linux rbe from macos. Does anyone know when such support is expected? 3. Is there support for building for Windows as the target system?

1. If you need to use multiple lockfiles, you want to look into the “resolves” configuration in Pants. More info: https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/python-third-party-dependencies#multiple-lockfiles 2. Someone with experience of this will have to correct me, but I believe remote execution works regardless of platforms involved. The common issue regarding cross platform is cross compilation. i.e. if you’re running on platform A but want the binary to work on platform B. To do that, you need the new “environments” feature coming in 2.16 released in 2.15. 3. Pants does not support Windows native. You can use Pants on Windows as long as you keep your feet and toes within the WSL2 boundary, and do not touch

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Re 3 I think @alert-psychiatrist-14102 is asking about building on linux/macos a binary that will run on Windows?

environments are in 2.15: https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.15/docs/environments

Ops. Thanks Stu. 🙂