pants pet peeve: so tedious setting up a new proje...
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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
ambitious-actor-36781
05/12/2022, 10:49 PMbut 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?
hundreds-father-404
05/12/2022, 10:50 PMthen 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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ambitious-actor-36781
05/12/2022, 10:53 PMbut would be nice there was a leinengen style
./pants startproject +black +isort +flake8š 1
ambitious-actor-36781
05/12/2022, 10:57 PMOn 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 -- migrateambitious-actor-36781
05/12/2022, 11:00 PMand 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