it looks like there is an un publi

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< curved television 6568> it looks like there is an un published page about `experimental shell command` is that waiting on something

curved-television-6568 · Answer

It s a draft Would be good to do some proof reading then it s probably ok to publish if it looks ok overall

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

looks good to me want me to make it visible for 2 9

curved-television-6568 · Answer

Ok by me

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

cool now visible

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

curved-television-6568 · Answer

I ll take a look at filling in the missing section at the end of that page later this week

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

i just filled in a few more details here and reorganized the page a bit

curved-television-6568 · Answer

This is not clear to me gt it must be a root target in your build graph

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

um yea that s a fuzzy concept i suppose

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

but it s not packageable right so there is no use in depending on it from any other target

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

` pants run` works but ` pants package` cannot should not

curved-television-6568 · Answer

Yea no point in depending on it

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

hence root it s a pretty informal concept though because we ve called `pex binary` a root in the past no other python code can should depend on it but a `docker image` can depend on it

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

and even `python tests` can now iirc

curved-television-6568 · Answer

Ah right that makes sense but the word `root` in my mind associates more with a directory than the dependency graph of targets still

curved-television-6568 · Answer

so I tried to grok why it had to be in the build root stuck out tongue feeling I had the wrong idea

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

ah yes true

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

i d really really love to formalize the concept of a build graph root but the changes around `pex binary` demonstrate that that is hard

curved-television-6568 · Answer

so until then perhaps add a few more words clarifying the effects of being a root target slightly smiling face

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

i think that it amounts to ``` it must be a root target in your build graph i e it may not be consumed by other targets ```

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

will edit

curved-television-6568 · Answer

yep that does it thanks slightly smiling face