Now that Pants 2.15 is out, let's whet your appetite for 2.16: lint your Python monorepo faster than ever with Pants and Ruff, two projects that share a passion for combining the raw power of Rust with the elegance of Python.

Alexey reviews the Python packaging landscape. You'll learn more about the options you have, their pros and cons, and how to find the best approach to distribute your Python applications.

The 2.15 series represents the biggest change to Pants since version 2.0, and we're excited to share how it can let you complete more workflows, more easily, in more places. Including cross-platform builds, containerized builds with Docker, and easier configuration for local builds…

Every year, we do a survey to identify community members' wishlist for the year ahead, and get a sense of what's highest priority for you. Please take the survey now!

A Pants maintainer's personal and professional retrospective on nearly two years of involvement in the project, starting as a curious newcomer.

At Tweag we have a lot of experience with Bazel, as we maintain the Haskell rules. However, I had feedback that Bazel's Python support was not ideal. In contrast, Python is Pants' strong point. My client's fear of boilerplate also made Bazel unappealing. Whereas, Pants reduces boilerplate…

Pants balances release velocity and end-user stability via judicious use of deprecation cycles. Experimental backends are a way to get quick feedback on new functionality, before "graduating" it to the formal deprecation policy. Experimental features are still well-supported, and not to be feared!

A year in, builds take only a few minutes (~150K LOC, ~1500 tests), PRs have become smaller as devs no longer try to squeeze as much as code as possible into a single change, code reviews get completed much faster (and are more likely to provide useful feedback), development velocity has increased…

Pants 2's design incorporated many lessons learned from the first version of Pants, and many of its contemporary build systems. On Pants 2's 2nd anniversary, we return to some of the earliest decisions we made when rewriting Pants and look back at how they've helped us evolve at a remarkable pace…