Is it possible to build a

resources

out of a

relocated_files

? I've got a folder in

/library/stuff

with files I need in multiple projects. Can I relocate them into those projects with

relocated_files

then turn them into resources that will be packaged (at those new, relocated, paths)

Would they be packaged into wheels or pex files or...? How are they being loaded at runtime? If they are loaded as package resources then you might not need to relocate them. For example, if

library/stuff

is a source root, and you have a

resources()

target in it that globs over the relevant files, then any code that depends on that target can load

library/stuff/foo/bar.txt

as the resource

bar.txt

in the package

foo

(or the resource

foo/bar.txt

in the root package, I think that works).

Also see when I tried adding this in https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/11559. The PR died from being stale because of questions like the above, but it could be revived

Sorry for the late reply. Yes the services are getting packaged into pex files. Currently I'm porting existing code that tries to read them with

open

as they where just copied to a location on disk, though I'd like to change this and package everything properly, it shouldn't be too hard to get this to work with the files as package resources. Will the tests be able to also work with code that access these files via

pkg_resources

or are additional steps needed ?