mgrenonville / pants

The Pants Build System

Pants Build System

Pants is a scalable build system for monorepos: codebases containing multiple projects, often using multiple programming languages and frameworks, in a single unified code repository.

Some noteworthy features include:

• Explicit dependency modeling.
• Fine-grained invalidation.
• Shared result caching.
• Concurrent execution.
• Remote execution.
• Unified interface for multiple tools and languages.
• Extensibility and customizability via a plugin API.

Documentation:

• V2 version of Pants (Python only, for now): https://pants.readme.io/docs/welcome-to-pants
• V1 version of Pants: http://www.pantsbuild.org/

We release to PyPI

We use Travis CI to verify the build .

Requirements

To run Pants, you need:

• Linux or macOS.
• Python 3.6+ discoverable on your PATH.
• A C compiler, system headers, Python headers (to compile native Python modules) and the libffi library and headers (to compile and link modules that use CFFI to access native code).
• Internet access (so that Pants can fully bootstrap itself).

Additionally, if you use the JVM backend to work with Java or Scala code:

• OpenJDK or Oracle JDK version 8 or greater.