😢 Everything was looking so neat. The tool we're using references other dependencies in arbitrary files using some arbitrary string-interpolation syntax. I was just using pants address specs, but in one file type they use a different parser and it didn't match the

:target

portion of the spec. I've had to go and do

target.address.spec.replace(':', '.')

in my plugins. so close. yet so far.

What's the context here?

the stupid runtime envrionment our code runs in has some awful configuration thing. Where

&{A_THING}

gets referenced in a lookup table of

A_THING: THE_ACTUAL_THING

So I'm wrapping this with Pants, and making it so that

A_THING

is the address spec e.g.

path/to:a_thing

Then hopefully, in the future, doing inference so I don't even need to add

path/to:a_thing

in the targets dependencies. Except in one case, where it doesn't detect the

:a_thing

. So I have to transform everything to

path/to.a_thing

and it looks stupid and is dumb.

we love sharing case studies. so useful for other teams. that'd be great!