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hundreds-father-404

04/07/2020, 4:19 PM
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.
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wide-energy-11069

04/08/2020, 8:07 PM
@aloof-angle-91616 could you comment on whether cpp backend is used?
h

hundreds-father-404

04/08/2020, 8:08 PM
I think you all use
pants.backend.native
, but it has no relation to
cpp
.
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aloof-angle-91616

04/08/2020, 8:08 PM
pants.contrib.cpp
is unused in twitter afaik, the native backend at
pants.backend.native
is staying put
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^^
we hadn't removed it yet because
pants.backend.native
can't build c++ binaries yet
thanks a lot for checking yi
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astonishing-jelly-60479

04/09/2020, 1:09 PM
sadly, we still use
pants.contrib.confluence
but if it goes away, maybe that's motivation for us to move to something better
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hundreds-father-404

04/09/2020, 4:06 PM
That’s okay! Foursquare told us yesterday that they use it too, so we’ll keep
pants.contrib.confluence
. Thanks for letting us know!