I think my

stevedore_extensions

plugin is fairly generalizable, and could be useful for anyone that uses https://github.com/openstack/stevedore to load plugins at runtime. Stevedore uses the python entry points infrastructure to look up the available plugins. This PR has a detailed description of the plugin. Is this something that could move into pants backends and be distributed with pants? What changes might be needed to make it more palatable? https://github.com/StackStorm/st2/pull/5869

fwiw, I could see a future where there’s a backend in Pants with support for stevedore_extensions.

Sweet

yea, that seems like something that we could accept.

Sweet. Now let's see where it gets merged first, in StackStorm or in pants 🙂? Now to create a PR. And, where should I put the backend? The other plugins are under

pants...python.<goal>.<tool>

, but that doesn't make much sense here because this is more about dep inference across a variety of goals. Eventually, I imagine there will be a django plugin. I imagine this would be a sibling of that plugin. So where do these framework-specific bits go?

pants.backend.[experimental.]python.frameworks.stevedore

pants.backend.[experimental.]python.frameworks.django

or

pants.backend.[experimental.]python.stevedore

pants.backend.[experimental.]python.django

And, should I go for

stevedore

(mirroring the library's name) or

stevedore_extensions

(which hints at the nature of the backend)?

Oh dont make me use my brain 😛 Its all bikeshed shades anyways 😛

+1 for

[…].stevedore

without the

_extensions

bit, as that is the project name for it, right?

@happy-kitchen-89482 you said in a ticket that you wrote some django dep inferrence stuff. Where are you planning to put that plugin?

It's still in a branch in my fork, but the code will go in

src/python/pants/backend/python/framework/django

, and there will probably be a register.py in

src/python/pants/backend/python/framework/experimental/django

to signal that this is experimental

Cool. So you like the

framework

namespace?

I like

framework

yeah, could also do

frameworks

, I don't think I put much thought into singular vs plural. But I guess we do singular elsewhere, e.g.,

backend

vs

backends

,

lint

vs

linters

etc.

I'm actively drafting the PR description, and then I'll fix frameworks -> framework. 🙂 PR almost ready...

I'll go read up on stevedore

probably be a register.py in

src/python/pants/backend/python/framework/experimental/django

to signal that this is experimental

was this meant to be

src/python/pants/backend/experimental/python/framework/django

?