Remember when we were bikeshedding a replacement for the

experimental

name and there was a brief digression about bikeshedding BUILD file name? I don't think we ever circled back to that did we?

I would only want a new name so we don't squat with Bazel. My editor keeps thinking BUILD files are for Bazel. Buck uses BUCK,

please

uses BUILD.please I think. Either is fine because it doesn't squat. Users can configure the name, which I think is worthwhile to keep (and still be compatible with BUILD for posterity and for users using both tools). But I think the de-facto being something else would be ideal IMHO

My repos all use

BUILD.pants

, mostly because a lot of my repos use

build

for compilation and output.

(we use BUILD.pants too)

I use

BUILD

simply because that is the default that tailor creates. Vim says

BUILD

files are "filetype=bzl". I've been meaning to change my vim config so it uses "filetype=python" but I haven't got around to it yet, so I often end up typing

:set ft=python

when I open a

BUILD

file.

I'd be happy with

BUILD.pants

as the default. If anything, makes it clear to teammates what the hell the file is for

If nothing else, then just supporting the default in Pants is a start

build_patterns = ["BUILD.pants", "BUILD"]

I should note that it's also a small pet peeve of mine to have extension-less files that aren't executable.

yeah, it is supported. The only thing we'd need to change is the default for

tailor

+ our docs. Not sure how to change the default for

tailor

gracefully

Yeah for sure, that's more of a "thing" to consider, not willy-nilly

We would probably need a fixer that updates tailor settings in pants.toml based on which file is present in an existing project. Tailor could even be more adaptive: when there are no

BUILD

files, add the setting to

pants.toml

to make tailor use

BUILD.pants

and then proceed to add the

BUILD.pants

files.

I like

BUILD.pants

too, including how it is a declarative little sentence subliminally reminding you you're using Pants now, not Bazel or whatevs.