Am I right that we don't today have an easy way to...
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happy-kitchen-89482
07/11/2022, 10:20 PMAm I right that we don't today have an easy way to check for "does a lockfile need regenerating because of changes to its input requirements"? Seems like that could be useful
happy-kitchen-89482
07/11/2022, 10:21 PMActually regenerating to see if there are any differences is not a good solution because changes to the world will cause differences even if the requirement inputs haven't changed.
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witty-crayon-22786
07/11/2022, 10:23 PMan attempt to consume the lockfile will fail and indicate that you need to regenerate it. but no, there isn’t an explicit operation currently.
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sparse-lifeguard-95737
07/11/2022, 10:26 PMhttps://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/15723 has some previous discussion
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happy-kitchen-89482
07/11/2022, 10:26 PMAh, so it sounds like we're almost all the way there (since we are able to fail that attempt to consume, we must already have the ability to tell)
happy-kitchen-89482
07/11/2022, 10:27 PMThanks for the link @sparse-lifeguard-95737! That is exactly what I'm after
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hundreds-father-404
07/11/2022, 10:29 PMafaik, the hardest part is what the UX should look like. As is common w/ Pants tickets 🙂
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sparse-lifeguard-95737
07/11/2022, 10:31 PMIf somebody spends some time thinking about UX changes to lockfile generation, https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/15704 is another one to keep in mind 😄
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enough-analyst-54434
07/11/2022, 10:31 PMI have heard 0 complaints about the cargo UX for this. I'd steal.