Stu Hood

Saw another instance of this one. Would a next step here be to give `DistributionHelper.distribution_from_path(target_dir)` a form that will fail with a useful exception?

Yea. In some cases this will _actually_ be interactive (in order for `twine` to sign wheels using `gpg` for example), so I don't think that this can universally be a...

I've reopened #17282 to suggest one path to making some of this more automatic. > What I'd like to do is construct an immutable digest that allowed me to do...

Containers are cached for reuse within a single `pantsd` instance, but they should be cleaned up when `pantsd` restarts _cleanly_. If pantsd restarts uncleanly (due to `kill -9` for example)...

@RaphDal: As discussed offline, I'll do the rebase and get this landed: sorry! Got tied up today.

Have rebased this, but a lot has changed on `dev` (sorry about that!). Am aiming to get it green and landed tomorrow.