Would it make any sense at all to have an option tell Pants

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Would it make any sense at all to have an option tell Pants to turn off inotify watching for certain goals Particularly the metadata goals like dependencies peek etc Combined with ` no pantsd` it might help Pants run better in some embedded situations where it may not be the only thing running Obviously this is an advanced feature that comes with a caveat emptor about possible invalidation mid run being ignored

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

but it requires turning off pantsd so it results in overhead for things like initial Pants startup ~1s oof

flat-zoo-31952 · Answer

Ah that s already there Any other options that would be good for running embedded in a program

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

What do you mean Like piping the output of Pants to a non Pants program

flat-zoo-31952 · Answer

Yeah or even some program is running pants for its output deep within some other concurrent mechanism like there s a `make j` going on and the make targets call scripts that call pants joy gun

flat-zoo-31952 · Answer

My experience shows that Pants works best when you use it as an orchestrator of multiple actions not the orchestrate ee but that s not always an option for some of us so I m trying to find a good set of defaults that enables this behavior without taking too much of a hit