Okay, I’m fine with waiting for 1.26.x!

and i think we need to talk long term game plan re: adding a second config file format.

Agreed. Given that INI’s sole advantage over TOML is the precedent for Pants users, my proposal is that we end up deprecating INI in favor of TOML (the

migrate_to_toml_config.py

script in https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/9054 is meant to make this migration far less disruptive. It took the migration time of Pants’ own config files from about 15 minutes of manual editing to about 4 minutes when using the script.)