Not sure if I should ask here or general... Is this the most recent/correct docs for building pants for a manual integration test? https://v1.pantsbuild.org/howto_develop.html

the v1 site is for Pants 1.x: more recent is anything directly on

www

Just saw this.

See the new docs for how to set up Pants to develop locally.

The rest of this page documents things that have not yet been moved to the new site.

How do I run the development build of pants? I couldn't find that in the new docs.

just running

pants

in the

pantsbuild/pants

repo will do it.

If so, that's at the bottom of https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/installation

Yeah, I think so! I wanted to test the asdf integration and I figured the best way was to build it and run with my setup. Thanks.

You can also run Pants directly from sources in a sibling repo. See https://github.com/pantsbuild/example-python/blob/main/pants_from_sources for an example

yea, what Benjy said. if you’re going to be live editing, you want to use something like that

pants_from_sources

script. it really doesn’t require a script in general though… it mostly amounts to running the

pants

script from your

pantsbuild/pants

in another directory

Documented: https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.7/docs/running-pants-from-sources

Only if you have source plugins, afaik

For that script, I'm not sure if it's because I'm using mac's ancient bash version, but I had to remove the

-u

option. Seems like initializing an empty array isn't the same as binding it?

./pants_from_sources: line 26: plugins[@]: unbound variable
./pants_from_sources: line 26: pythonpath[@]: unbound variable
./pants_from_sources: line 26: backend_packages[@]: unbound variable

and then a failure containing

180, in parse
    req, = parse_requirements(s)
ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 1, got 0)

Removing that -u option fixed it.