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                                            Benjy Weinberger

Have a simple way to figure out if a given list targets (by type and location) have changed

That might be intuitive - that is how `git grep` works for example. That said, we probably still want to allow explicitly specifying specs.

Don't require users of one language to install a toolchain for other languages

Yeah, hence needing to pantsignore the source roots relevant to those disabled backends.

Consider removing restrictions on subtyping in the engine

In the age of call-by-name (https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/19730) subtyping would be fine, no?

set version in python_artifact via vcs_version

@IsmaelMartinez Are you referring to https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/18179?

Override virtualenv prompt when exporting using symlinks

I don't think the fix is in `export`, which is just symlinking to an immutable venv. Instead, this should be applied when those venvs are created, I assume.

Override virtualenv prompt when exporting using symlinks

Yes, but to get maximum cache reuse we want to set the same prompt whenever we create the otherwise-the-same venv. That reuse is why export is fast! Since in no...

`pants generate-lockfiles` to use `uv` for dependency resolution

Duplicate of https://github.com/pex-tool/pex/issues/2371 - see the discussion there, and feel free to join in!

`pants generate-lockfiles` to use `uv` for dependency resolution

Reopening this to discuss the possibility of Pants using uv directly, outside of Pex.

Avoid Resolving Dependencies When Building in Intransitive Mode

Thanks for filing this @adeandrade. To clarify the terminology, typically we talk of two different files, `requirements.txt`, which contains the requirements your code directly depends on, and then the optional...

Avoid Resolving Dependencies When Building in Intransitive Mode

I guess it depends what exactly is happening in the time attributed to resolving. For example, downloading the dists can take time, and if they are sdists then pip has...