John Sirois

Thanks for reporting. This is known broken, currently you need to: ``` console ./build-support/python/clan.sh && ./pants.bootstrap ``` but this is definitely a bug.

It looks like a missing symlink to the python config tool is the issue here - its most likely used to determine the distribution install prefix and the result is...

Lets try taking pants out of the picture. Its doing the following - please try this and report back your results: ``` console $ virtualenv /tmp/issues204 New python executable in...

Goals are definitely aligned here - the pex should be hermetic save for the interpreter and standard libs it carries along.

Interesting. The key line from your log was: Could not call install_name_tool -- you must have Apple's development tools installed This generally means updating XCode and then going through its...

Agreed on both points.

Yeah - we push as a squash commit, so the 100s of changes internally look like big single changes on github. We definitely are happy to field pull requests and...

We need to update the README and will be blogging about pants and sapling by ~end of May, but the build already works - but is custom (uses ant/ivy behind...

Yes - scalability on 2 fronts: 1.) What you see is a small slice of a much larger repo (using saplling: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sapling https://github.com/jsirois/sapling) with >20 leaf projects and some common_internal...

You could vote to change to maven or anything else if it fits the requirements described. In particular, besides the shortcoming of scant (non-existant!) docs right now on the public...