yeah, its just annoying to have lots of different folders at the root used by pants. Maven and SBT use

target

. Everything goes below that. In my case - migrating from Maven -

dist/

was already used for distribution related things. But when I look at the config options,

.pants.d

comes from

pants_workdir

. To me build products go to the work dir.

dist/

is the canonical place

I guess that's too canonical: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/261 Which turns out to be also broken in the intellij plugin (I'll raise an issue about it).