How do people feel about the current way of writing help str

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How do people feel about the current way of writing help strings multiple implictly joined strings with trailing spaces I just opened a PR for a little string utility that would allow us to use multiline strings It still requires newline gardening but is still much easier to write read Feedback welcome <https github com pantsbuild pants pull 14783>

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

cc < polite garden 50641> I think

bitter-ability-32190 · Answer

~I think you might misunderstand this isn t something that s on or off Just a new way of providing strings to `help` ~ ~I ll be checking as I migrate Pants options that the user facing options don t change significantly Minor tweaks will be called out ~

polite-garden-50641 · Answer

I got confused with a different thread asset dependency inference so I deleted the original msg

polite-garden-50641 · Answer

As for anything to do with writing plugins I only work on one the Toolchain one I don t think my opinion is relevant here since this kind of change mostly affects the pants code base Which I hardly ever developed for

bitter-ability-32190 · Answer

First toe in PR posted <https github com pantsbuild pants pull 14791> fishing pole and fish