Alexey Tereshenkov

Thank you, @jsirois, I have also spent a few hours trying to get Pants pass the `--exclude` flag to pex so that a requirement that is not listed in a...

Unless I have overseen something, this applies also to running pex without a lockfile: > ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement python3-tabulate (from versions: none) ERROR:...

Oh great to catch up again, John :) thanks for taking a look! I have a PR https://github.com/AlexTereshenkov/cheeseshop-query/pull/39/files in case you want to run things locally for yourself. `$ PEX_EXTRA_SYS_PATH="/home/user.name/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages"...

FWIW I am actually fine to run the commands with no / empty lockfile - the primary use case is that none of the dependencies are going to be provided...

> @AlexTereshenkov this sounds like a cool feature. What's the status of this PR? @huonw We have support scripts I run to produce the schema for every new Pants version...

> > > `help-all` still only shows JSON for the currently active backends right? > > > > > > yes. > > EDIT: actually, it also includes info on...

> Which sandbox exactly? The one that fails? I can see that being useful. Oh great point. Whereas Bazel has everything in the execroot, we have separate directories (sandboxes). I'd...

The symlink would let user explore the sandbox directory without having to read through the output log and copy the directory (and then pasting in terminal / navigating to in...

> So on every run the symlink gets re-pointed? Correct. You run a goal, and your directory gets refreshed in your IDE. This is what currently happens with the `dist`...

> OK, and this will be to the sandbox that failed, if any, and if not... ? We delete the symlink? I think it would be handy to have all...