hi 👋 we've an internal tool in the monorepo that we want to use in a custom Pants plugin. How would you suggest to integrate this sort of tools? I could not find the best approach for this case because usually the tools used in the plugins are hosted in pip or preinstalled.

Have you seen “Building in-repo plugins with Pants” ? https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.9/docs/plugins-overview#building-in-repo-plugins-with-pants Is that what you were asking about?

yes, but this section describes only eternal tools. in this case I want to build the pex from the code and use it in the plugin

It's valid to import the code in the plugin, although I think you'll want to add the internal tool to

pantsd_invalidation_globs.add

in

GLOBAL

section (if it's not already covered by

pythonpath

option), e.g.

"path/to/**/*.py"

That makes sure that when you change your internal tool, Pantsd gets invalidated properly