fyi bikeshed on whether to name it

./pants lock

vs

./pants resolve

vs.

./pants python-lock

vs. something else: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/12641. Feedback welcomed!

I know it's a lockfile, so

lock

makes a certain amount of sense. But as a purely semantic issue, I'm concerned that "lock" as a verb sounds like more potent security than what this is. For that reason, I'd vote for

resolve

or a fourth option.

thanks for the input! could you please move that comment to the github PR?

Rust uses

cargo update

Over in Ruby: https://guides.rubygems.org/command-reference/

go get

and

go mod tidy

Sounds analagous to

bundle update

and

gem update

https://guides.rubygems.org/command-reference/#gem-update https://bundler.io/man/bundle-update.1.html

Freeze?

Every language seems to pick a different word. Do any known tools use

resolve

? If not, I think that would be perfect for a language agnostic goal.

lock

freeze

update

and friends are all defined slightly differently for different language tools.

Good point @proud-dentist-22844!

I think

./pants generate-lockfiles

will be the most unambiguous and future-proof, given that a couple things are going to be changing in the future like Pants autogenerating the lockfile rather than forcing you to manually run the goal. https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/12641#issuecomment-905777885 In the future, I envision it will be deprecated in favor of

./pants update-lockfiles