John Sirois

And, late to notice, but: > then pants could make use of any of the fields that are standardized, possibly eliminating the need for that awful comment. The current Pants...

So, I want to make a meta-comment here that's not very friendly. Pants issues of a certain sort - there are several - have this pile-on but half or not...

As of the [2.39.0 release](https://github.com/pex-tool/pex/releases/tag/v2.39.0) Pex now supports both exporting pylock.toml via `pex3 lock export --format pep-751` and consuming pylock.toml to build PEXes via `pex --pylock`. In both cases, Pex...

Arguably even better would be the ability to prune items not recently used. This requires the least understanding of Pex cache internals and is likely the most familiar metric. I'll...

#2586 provides most of the infra needed for this.

This will need support from `science` 1st: https://github.com/a-scie/lift/issues/76

Support is coming in the 0.5.0 release prepped here: https://github.com/a-scie/lift/pull/77

It may make sense to just make the new option be a stripped flag defaulting to `False`: `--{no,}scie-stripped`.