A poll: which do people prefer for the default "resolve" and lockfile for your Python code? A "resolve" is a logical name for a lockfile, and it's what will allow multiple lockfiles in your project. If you want some code to use a different lockfile than the default, you'll set

resolve="data_science"

for example. A. Abbreviate for less verbosity:

{"py-default": "3rdparty/py/default_lock.txt"}

B. Use full name for clarity:

{"python-default": "3rdparty/python/default_lock.txt"}

Is there a principle implied or is this random? Would java be java-default (with no degrees of freedom) and rust be - like python - rs-default or rust-default (bad example but hopefully underscores the point).

Java and Scala is currently

jvm-default

, so no precedent is currently set

You're missing my point.

Oh I think the idea is more "accepted abbreviations for the language when the language name is long". If there is no abbrevation (Scala and Java), there's no decision I'd think Rust should be

rust-default

because it doesn't seem like RS is used as an abbreviation, only the file extension

Hrm, ok. That feels random to me. I'd personally like to know python is python and I need never look up docs to know what to expect for various pants names.

Would Go be

go-default

or

golang-default

, for example? (Probably a bad example, Go has its own lockfile semantics and it's not clear we'll hook it into this generic resolves infrastructure https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/13114)

I guess my thrust is entertaining opinion on something like this feels like entertaining randomness. A principle would be great. Go, Python, Rust, the JVM (class files) - these are all discoverable names. Golang is just a conceit because people are bad at searching / it's so overloaded in regular speech.

aside: English has to be one of the worst languages... even if it's my native language I don't like how unpredictable it is. Portuguese is much better imo (the only other spoken language I know well).