Are there any examples in the repo for lint plugins that are built from source (like a git tag?), rather than being pulled down pre-compiled?

The go protobuf plugin builds the protobuf-go plugin from scratch. It isn’t a lint plugin but it is an example of a tool compiled by Pants.

Ah, yes, this was what I was looking for... It seems to be exactly what I should have assumed it would have been 🙂 I'm just wondering because for something like Swift, it's pretty normal to just pull down the git code and compile That looks pretty straightforward :)

You can probably just setup a

git

command in a

Process

.

I mean, retrieving the source via git or just through Github's API - sure. Was more wondering about the compilation step

the go backend was the first compiled backend for v2 so it has some interesting design aspects. one is that we separated the compile rule from knowing anything about target types.

This is probably how the cc backend should work too, in fact, almost has to

yeah I've really really liked that modeling of separating out compilation vs target metadata extraction