What's the proper Pants way to replace an existing

data_files

option from a

setup.py

? For background, I am moving internal packages to a Monorepo. We have

packageA

, which had the

data_files

. I moved that code fine, and can run it with toy examples no problem. But then I move over

packageB

, which calls code that relies on those files. But Pants has no knowledge of them at all, so of course they don't end up where they're supposed to. The documentation states that

you cannot use data_files, install_requires, namespace_packages, package_dir, package_data, or packages because Pants will generate these for you, based on the data derived from your code and dependencies.

, but when it's not generated for me how am I supposed to get the files where they need to be?

You would use a

resources

target in the

BUILD

file. Then add a dependency from the relevant Python targets (e.g.,

python_sources

) to that

resources

target using the

dependencies

attribute. See https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/assets for more information.

Thanks, I'll give it a go!