Is there any way to gain back the `entry points` capability Pants #general

Is there any way to gain back the `entry_points` c...

high-yak-85899

03/16/2022, 5:53 PM

Is there any way to gain back the

entry_points

capability that exists with

setup.py

in pants? Maybe like some kind of path alias or something in

pants.toml

hundreds-father-404

03/16/2022, 5:56 PM

What do you mean? Like this field? https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-python_distribution#codeentry_pointscode

high-yak-85899

03/16/2022, 5:58 PM

Yes, but for use in the repo (and not just the distributed form of it). In our venv set up, I could do

run_my_tool

with the venv active. Now I have to do

./pants run potentially/long/path/to/my_tool.py

each time

hundreds-father-404

03/16/2022, 6:00 PM

Ah, have you seen setting up CLI aliases? https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-cli#section-alias A brilliant contribution from @curved-television-6568. We don't publicize it enough, I'm not sure where it should live in the docs.

high-yak-85899

03/16/2022, 6:01 PM

I definitely haven't. I think that's exactly what I'm needing!

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high-yak-85899

03/16/2022, 6:03 PM

I think it would be great somewhere near incremental adoption (or wherever one would talk about going from a

setup.py

like system to pants). Though I'm not sure how much others use entry points. We use them a lot at Astranis and the only reason people weren't complaining yet is because our venv usage hasn't been completely deprecated.

high-yak-85899

03/16/2022, 6:05 PM

Just tried it out and it worked perfectly.

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hundreds-father-404

03/16/2022, 6:07 PM

Incremental adoption is definitely the best place I can think of too, other than if we added a "tips and tricks" page that sort of compliments https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.10/docs/troubleshooting

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