SCIE_BOOT=update scie-pants & PANTS_BOOTSTRAP_VERSION=report scie-pants are clunky.

[jsirois]

The former leaks an implementation detail. A Pants user should not need to be confronted with what scie means. The latter is just plain clunky.

Ideally Pants would support a bootstrap pseudo-goal since the namespace has already been taken by PANTS_BOOTSTRAP_TOOLS in the existing ./pants script. That would allow for scie-pants bootstrap update and scie-pants bootstrap version respectively (or scie-pants bootstrap --update and scie-pants bootstrap --version to align slightly better with how Pants goals work).

[jsirois]

N.B. It seems the scie-pants binary name has converged on pants quickly; so modify the above as such; I.E.: pants bootstrap update or pants bootstrap --update.

[tdyas]

Prior art "self" in Rustup: rustup self update

[jsirois]

Yeah. It's unfortunate we already had the (probably inadvertent) land grab on bootstrap via the PANTS_BOOTSTRAP_TOOLS introduction. I guess we can just grab more land though and deprecate the bootstrap stuff or leave the world split.

[kaos]

Not being well versed in rust, self isn't any more obvious than bootstrap to me. What I mean is, I think we could go with what feels most natural for Pants regardless of the choice rust has made for them. (i.e. I'm fine with either just that the referenced prior art may not span far outside the rust community.. or maybe it does but I'm unaware)

[wfscheper]

poetry also uses self as a command namespace for managing itself: https://python-poetry.org/docs/cli/#self