Hello guys, would it be possible for pants to use the

grpc_python_plugin

from the bin of the grpc installation rather than using a standalone binary? Just wanted to understand why it is not done that way currently before I open a feature request.

We'd love that! I think when we added grpc in 2020, it wasn't possible for some reason. https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/10927 I'm not sure from that what the problem was

Cool, let me open a feature request then.

cool. I think it's as simple as updating the URL and hashes in

grpc_python_plugin.py

if you want to try implementing too 🙂

Sure, I'd love that.

awesome - I'm trying to get out a 2.14 release tomorrow, so we can cherry-pick this to 2.14 as well

Just to be sure, I need to do the contributor setup for Pants repo for this?

Yeah, but you can also save yourself time by not actually running

./pants

. Simply change the URL and hashes in

grpc_python_plugin.py

, then use CI to run the tests. That should be fine because this is a trivial change https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/contributor-overview. (Rust compilation is slow the first time)

If I change the URL and hashes, it would stick to the updated version then and not automatically pull in the latest grpc?

There is no way to say "latest". It's super important to Pants that everything is pinned down so that things Don't Break On You Overnight. Instead, we try to have pantsbuild/pants's defaults be the latest stable version of tools, and then users can also set to what they want. (And we love when contributor update tool versions!)

Hi, how would I know SHA before the new binaries are uploaded to the default URL which is https://binaries.pantsbuild.org/bin/grpc_python_plugin/{version}/{platform}/grpc_python_plugin?

Hi friends. I used to mirror the https://github.com/pantsbuild/binaries/tree/master/build-support/bin in Artifactory. I suspect the patterns have changed since then but ultimately we will need to do something philosophically similar