Hi pants! What’s the recommended way to install a 1st-party CLI tool from source in “editable” mode using

pants

? This would be helpful to use while developing the tool so changes to source are reflected when using the CLI tool without having to uninstall / reinstall. From reading the

pants

docs, it seems like using a

python_distribution

with

entry_points

might be my best bet for installing said CLI tool, but I’m not finding if there is a way to install this distribution in “editable” mode. Let me know if I’m on the wrong track, too…

generally to iterate on a 1st party tool, you’d define a

pex_binary

for it, and then

./pants run

or

./pants package

it

Ahh I totally missed

./pants run

– thanks, that should do it!

sure thing! depending on whether your package does something sideeffecty (triggering the nukes / gender reveal, etc), you might also be able to use

./pants --loop run

to re-run it continuously as files change