hey guys, is there a Goal/Target in pants to only install all dependencies of a particular path? My problem is that I want to use pants in docker, and I don't want to have to rebuild the dependency graph each time I want to generate a binary, so my idea is that I'll install all dependencies in a layer, and then binary goal will rebuild only the parts that changed each time

What language is this for?

for python sorry

And, to clarify, are you talking about 3rdparty dependencies vs. internal code? It's common that 3rdparty dependencies change rarely but internal code changes all the time.

for more context, when running a goal (test/binary) pants caches dependencies and sources in

pants.d

to use them for further invocations, is there a goal that will run to just generate the cache for specific

target

So just create the pexes but don't do anything with them

is there a goal for just creating the pexes ?

Oh sorry I just meant to reiterate what you were referring to

ok thx 🙂

Sorry, have been traveling but haven't forgotten this.

yep happy to switch anytime, and I'm on one of the latest versions

1.24.0.dev2

(the one with pex v2)

I think you should be able to switch! the v2 python pipeline is basically feature complete. Is your underlying code Python 2 or Python 3?

python3.7 😁

Yes, there was some issue with it, we're working to restore it in the next release

apparently just using

./pants pyprep packages/::

directly does what I want already haha

oh great!