PantsWhat is Pants?
Pants is a build system for Java, Scala and Python. It works particularly well for a source code repository that contains many distinct projects.
Pants is a tool in the Build Automation category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Builds Java, Scala, and Python.Adding support for new languages is straightforward.Supports code generation: thrift, protocol buffers, custom code generators.Resolves external JVM and Python dependencies.Runs tests.Spawns Python and Scala REPLs with appropriate load paths.Creates deployable packages.Scales to large repos with many interdependent modules.Designed for incremental builds.Support for local and distributed caching.Especially fast for Scala builds, compared to alternatives.Builds standalone python executables (PEX files)Has a plugin system to add custom features and override stock behavior.Runs on Linux and Mac OS X.
Pants Pros & Cons
Pros of Pants
- ✓Creates deployable packages
- ✓BUILD files
- ✓Runs on Linux
- ✓Runs on OS X
- ✓Runs tests
- ✓Scales
- ✓Extensible
- ✓Flexibility
Cons of Pants
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Pants Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Pants?
Gradle
Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites.
CMake
It is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files, and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of the user's choice.
Apache Maven
Maven allows a project to build using its project object model (POM) and a set of plugins that are shared by all projects using Maven, providing a uniform build system. Once you familiarize yourself with how one Maven project builds you automatically know how all Maven projects build saving you immense amounts of time when trying to navigate many projects.
