I am building a plugin that will consume the

python_dists

if present as a dependency. This is causing my builds to fail when no

python_dist

dependency is present

@witty-crayon-22786 May I know who should ask :) ?

hm... you've seen https://www.pantsbuild.org/dev_tasks.html#products-how-one-task-consumes-the-output-of-another ?

I followed the guide. The issue is, when the setup_py.py tasks starts with no targets to build, it raises an exception unlike other tasks