What is the current procedure for adding a depende...
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fast-nail-55400
09/16/2021, 4:40 AMWhat is the current procedure for adding a dependency to Pants? context: I added a requirement to
3rdparty/python/requirements.txt3rdparty/python/lockfiles/user_reqs.txth
hundreds-father-404
09/16/2021, 5:04 AMit needs to also be used somewhere to be picked up
hundreds-father-404
09/16/2021, 5:04 AMhttps://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/12848 is another way you could force it to be included, but WIP
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fast-nail-55400
09/16/2021, 5:04 AMIt is. See https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/12916.
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hundreds-father-404
09/16/2021, 5:04 AMah it needs module_mapping
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fast-nail-55400
09/16/2021, 5:05 AMgah
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hundreds-father-404
09/16/2021, 5:06 AMbut @fast-nail-55400 it would be better to use PythonToolBase to build a Pex with that. That means that you don't have to build this when installing Pants every time, and it allows the user to set up a lockfile and change the version over time
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fast-nail-55400
09/16/2021, 5:07 AMThis is an internal impl detail of the Terraform plugin.
fast-nail-55400
09/16/2021, 5:07 AMnot a tool that we are exposing to the user
fast-nail-55400
09/16/2021, 5:07 AMlike “black” and “pylint”
fast-nail-55400
09/16/2021, 5:08 AMbut not installing it except when the plugin is configured is useful
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hundreds-father-404
09/16/2021, 5:16 AMEspecially given that CI often needs to bootstrap Pants, so every dep we add slows down users' CI
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fast-nail-55400
09/16/2021, 5:41 AMany examples of how I run a script in the context of a PythonToolbase pex?
fast-nail-55400
09/16/2021, 5:42 AMthe examples I see all invoke a
ConsoleScripth
hundreds-father-404
09/16/2021, 5:46 AMSee lockfile.py for a script that imports poetry