Can relocated_files be used with resources in a configurable way? If not, is there a way to add resources to a pex to a specific place without physically locating them in the source directory? I need to have them available as a separate directory, and in the pex they should have some directories trimmed. Right now I get them with the same directory structure as in the repository.

Nope. You'll have to author a plugin for that 😠 This is my #1 gripe with Pants and I have a proposal to address it, but it's a large undertaking as it changes how Pants intuits dependencies in general

Ok, thanks!

I wouldn't try and get too clever using symlinks. We just added Pants symlink support in 2.16.x. So it might break in the future

This is my #1 gripe with Pants and I have a proposal to address it, but it's a large undertaking as it changes how Pants intuits dependencies in general

Do you mean that if we graft are able resources in different random places, it becomes unclear if a target above one of these places should affect them too or not (for example with things like defaults)? And possibly other similar issues.

The issue I'm referring to is just the delineator of file v resource at declaration time

Aha, I think I see it. If I understand correctly, for python it's probably not a big problem, but for go and java it's significant. Well, maybe in Pants v3!