Hi Pants team I am wondering if you would add support for so

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Hi Pants team I am wondering if you would add support for some tools which are not supported yet thing like import linter doctest Or is it easy for us to add them ourselves

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

We are definitely happy to help people contribute new tools This is how we got support for Autoflake Pyupgrade Yapf Pylint etc For example <https github com pantsbuild pants issues 15240> for thoughts on how to add `pydocstyle` Would you be interested in contributing a particular tool

sparse-lifeguard-95737 · Answer

If < wide zoo 86070> doesn t claim it I would be interested in contributing `import linter`

wide-zoo-86070 · Answer

< sparse lifeguard 95737> go ahead I can take doctest

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

re doctest check out <https github com pantsbuild pants issues 11227> I m still not sure on the best modeling I ll comment

happy-kitchen-89482 · Answer

There has been some discussion of import linter before It s totally fine to add as is but there is also this ticket for more general support <https github com pantsbuild pants issues 13393>

sparse-lifeguard-95737 · Answer

yes my guess impression is that the import linter plugin would be quicker to get working and possible for me to do as an external contributor the bigger visibility support is probably beyond me at this point slightly smiling face

happy-kitchen-89482 · Answer

The nice thing about that more general mechanism is that it would work across languages and across dependencies that aren t captured by `import` analysis alone such as dependencies on data files or dynamically loaded files e g Django apps loaded by name at runtime

happy-kitchen-89482 · Answer

But bird in the hand etc

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

Any ideas what we should do with import linter after we add general support Deprecate

happy-kitchen-89482 · Answer

No need People may have existing import linter config that they want to apply as they onboard

wide-zoo-86070 · Answer

Hi < hundreds father 404> Could you provide a little more details on general support I believe pants is supposed to be used in monorepo which features similar to import linter is important and come out from the box is it s a priority from pants perspective

sparse-lifeguard-95737 · Answer

re the `import linter` plugin I ve reached the point of staring at rule graph errors from the new plugin s integration tests so depending on how debugging goes I ll hopefully have a PR up soon slightly smiling face

sparse-lifeguard-95737 · Answer

< wide zoo 86070> I got the plumbing for the `import linter` plugin working only to run into some conceptual mismatches between what `import linter` expects and the way Pants usually works there are some potential work arounds but I think the UX would be really ugly so I ve decided to abandon this effort I wrote up my thoughts here