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Re:Pants: Build system by Twitter, Foursquare, and Square by exacube on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @05:22PM (#8327192)
Finally, a modern-day build tool! I thought Facebook would open source theirs first.

(this looks a LOT like Google's and Facebook's and Amazon's internal build config as well, btw)

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Re:Pants: Build system by Twitter, Foursquare, and Square by skybrian on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @12:16AM (#8328579)
They're explicit about this:

"Pants models code modules (known as “targets”) and their dependencies in BUILD files—in a manner similar to Google’s internal build system" [1]

But I have to wonder why they choose to spell out "dependencies" :-)

[1] http://pantsbuild.github.io/announce_201409.html

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Re:Pants: Build system by Twitter, Foursquare, and Square by ch0wn on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @05:25PM (#8327204)
> I thought Facebook would open source theirs first.

Well there is Buck, Facebook's Java and Android build tool: https://facebook.github.io/buck/

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Re:Pants: Build system by Twitter, Foursquare, and Square by exacube on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @11:51PM (#8328492)
It's not really a generic tool like Pants is, but it's something. Thanks for sharing!
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