Has anyone gotten pants to work on Alpine Linux yet? If not, is it possible?

That's a good question. You'd have to build Pants on Alpine, including its native code (which requires the rust toolchain), as we don't publish wheels for it (Alpine is not manylinux-compatible). And pip would have to be able to build all Pants's transitive deps at install time.

+1 to not running Python on Alpine, usually build times will be very long as all requirements w/ native dependencies will need to be built from scratch.

yes. for ci. docker package.

The latest pip, setuptools, auditwheel toolchain now supports detection of musl-compatible wheels. https://peps.python.org/pep-0656/ https://github.com/pypa/auditwheel/issues/305 An example of the release-process update in gevent: https://github.com/gevent/gevent/pull/1846/files The pitfall in Alpine Linux is that it is not practical to build & use "statically built" Python because the static version of musl libc does not support dynamic loading at all, blocking import of all C extension modules in Python. Otherwise, if we use dynamic versions, it should be fine with wheels distributed with musllinux platform tags or source builds of them.

thanks. I will check it out.