I have another question unrelated to my previous above. I have an egg file for a 3rd party dependency that is specified as a

python_requirement_library

. Within our pants.toml file, we have the following:

[python-repos]
repos = [
    "%(buildroot)s/3rdparty/repos"
  ]

In pants 1.8, that egg file was being picked up from the repos directory, but in 1.28 it is not able to be found. Do I need to specify it some other way?

my first thought is that pants 1.28 uses pex version 2, which uses pip to resolve, and i was just poking around in the pip source code and i don’t remember if it handles eggs, either by default or at all. @enough-analyst-54434 or @hundreds-father-404 will likely have greater context on this question

Aaaah ok. In the meantime, I'll search around and see if I can figure out how pip handles egg files. Would an alternative be to pack the 3rd party dependency as a

.whl

?

You could try using Pants 1.25.x to see if that is indeed the issue, because that still uses Pex 1.6. But I would be surprised if Pip doesn’t understand egg files.

Some quick googling is showing that pip does not handle eggs, so I think I'll go the

.whl

route. Seems like egg files are on the way out anyways.