Hello! We sent an email to pants-devel that I’m copying here to ensure everyone has a chance to weigh in. We’re proposing to deprecate the below in 1.27.0.dev3 and to remove in 1.29.0.dev0 given their low usage: - pants.backend.codegen.antlr.java - pants.backend.codegen.antlr.python - pants.backend.codegen.jaxb - pants.backend.codegen.ragel.java - pants.backend.codegen.wire.java - pants.contrib.avro - pants.contrib.confluence - pants.contrib.cpp - pants.contrib.errorprone - pants.contrib.findbugs - pants.contrib.googlejavaformat - pants.contrib.jax_ws - pants.contrib.scalajs - pants.contrib.thrifty Do any of you depend on any of these? If so, let us know and we’ll gladly remove them from the list.

@aloof-angle-91616 could you comment on whether cpp backend is used?

I think you all use

pants.backend.native

, but it has no relation to

cpp

.

pants.contrib.cpp

is unused in twitter afaik, the native backend at

pants.backend.native

is staying put

sadly, we still use

pants.contrib.confluence

That’s okay! Foursquare told us yesterday that they use it too, so we’ll keep

pants.contrib.confluence

. Thanks for letting us know!