User:Cczona/sandbox/Pants (software)

Pants (software) is a build automation system that automatically orchestrates software builds, tests, depedency management, and packaging.

Pants build system

# need to add Picture of the Pants logo: a light blue pair of pants with left leg crooked in a jaunty manner against right calf
Other names	Pantsbuild
Original author(s)	John Sirois
Developer(s)	Twitter (2010 (2010)-April 27, 2020 (2020-04-27)), Toolchain (2018 (2018)-2024) # needs citation re Toolchain start. needs citation format for https://groups.google.com/g/pants-devel/c/PHVIbVDLhx8/m/LpSKIP5cAwAJ
Initial release	2010 (2010) # cite https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2014/hello-pants-build
Stable release	2.13.0 # add updating this to the release process / 7 September 2022 (2022-09-07) # add updating this to the release process
Preview release	2.14.0rc0 # add updating this to the release process / 9 September 2022 (2022-09-09) # add updating this to the release process
Repository	github.com/pantsbuild/pants
Written in	Python, Rust
Operating system	Linux (x86_64), macOS (Intel or Apple Silicon), Windows (with WSL 2)
Type	Build tool
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	http://pantsbuild.org

History

Pants v1 was initially developed at Twitter in 2010 by John Sirois. The "Pants" name is based on the software's earliest iteration, which generated what Siriois considered "Python Ants": a series of Ant files written in Python. Benjy Weinberger at Foursquare then helped Sirois further develop it to meet both companies' needs. Their work was inspired by Make, Maven, Ant, and Blaze. In 2012, their employers released Pants as open source software. In 2020, Twitter announced it would be discontinuing participation in active development of Pants v1.

Pants v2 is a complete rewrite released six months later, inspired by lessons learned about the limitations of its predecessor software. It features dependency inference, fine-grained caching, remote execution, and remote caching. Current focus of the Pants open source project is on performance, ease-of-use, and ergonomics.

External links

• www.example.com