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ambitious-actor-36781
05/12/2022, 9:36 AMpants pet peeve: so tedious setting up a new project.
done three in the last month or two and every one feels like it's been pulling teeth to get things rolling.
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bitter-ability-32190
05/12/2022, 11:02 AMCan you elaborate on the pain points? Without knowing where the friction is, it's hard to make this simpler/easier š
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hundreds-father-404
05/12/2022, 1:35 PM+1, we're trying to continually lower the barrier for onboarding and created this label: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aonboarding
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busy-vase-39202
05/12/2022, 4:13 PMThanks for this feedback. Detailed rundown of the flaws you've encountered would be invaluable. We know we want to make onboarding a dramatically better experience, so understanding what to tackle to make gains that are impactful would be a big deal.
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ambitious-actor-36781
05/12/2022, 10:46 PMthings like:
ā¢ adding black, flake8 ... then configuring them to work together.
ā¢ then add in isort, and get it to work nicely with black.
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hundreds-father-404
05/12/2022, 10:48 PMwere you already using those tools?
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ambitious-actor-36781
05/12/2022, 10:48 PMNo, this is a brand new repository
but adding the config files, then pointing pants to tell black about them.
it's all just boilerplate
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hundreds-father-404
05/12/2022, 10:49 PMOK. It sounds like some of the complications with getting those tools themselves to work? What could pants be doing differently to make this all easier?
then pointing pants to tell black about them.hm are you manually configuring vs discovery?
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ambitious-actor-36781
05/12/2022, 10:52 PMyeah, a part of it is the tools themselves.
I'm guessing I'm manually configuring them into /build-support
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but would be nice there was a leinengen style
./pants startproject +black +isort +flake8š 1
On the django side, There's a bit of cajoleing making files in the right place, resources/dependencies all resolve etc.
The django example is a great help.
But there's a few quirks here. like. you need to run
makemigrations.pantsrestartable=Truepants run :mange -- migrateand satisfying mypy's insatiable thirst for type annotations is impossible.
But that's mostly a mypy issue
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bitter-ability-32190
05/12/2022, 11:01 PMYou might look into to sharing a GitHub template repo or using cookiecutter
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ambitious-actor-36781
05/12/2022, 11:18 PMthat could work.
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busy-vase-39202
05/12/2022, 11:24 PMI still think there's win-win in getting Pants into some existing cookiecutter repos https://pantsbuild.slack.com/archives/C0D7TNJHL/p1652115137850049
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ambitious-actor-36781
05/12/2022, 11:24 PMthat'd be good yeah