any chance I could get a few more eyes from non-toolchain people on https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/9077 ?

could you summarize your reaction to https://pantsbuild.slack.com/archives/C0D7TNJHL/p1580940954159200 on there?

One thing that isn’t mentioned: the possibility of

./pants repl --only=ipython

. It’d be good to document that it’s a possibility. Also, to reiterate, the reason I do not like

./pants repl --only

is that the option must be provided for things to work, unlike any other goals we have in Pants (outside of

./pants login --to

). That’s a smell to me that this should instead be several dedicated goals. It’s more discoverable to find several distinct goals via

./pants goals

than it is to first run

./pants repl

, have it fail, realize you need to use

./pants repl --only

, and have to frequently check

./pants help repl

to remember what those options are.

there are lessons to be learned from v1 in the regard... currently, there is a default repl per language, and you can override it. would be good to think about how that looks here.