# Tailoring Pants for Square

DevFeed: [Tailoring Pants for Square](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/tailoring-pants-for-square-15904.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/tailoring-pants-for-square>)

Author: Square Engineering

Published: 2016-05-02T16:11:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>), [IntelliJ IDEA](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/intellij-idea.md>), [Java](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/java.md>), [Maven Central](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maven-central.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [build-system](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build-system.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [compatibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compatibility.md>), [dependencies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependencies.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [ide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ide.md>), [idea](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/idea.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [maven-central](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maven-central.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [refactoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/refactoring.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [reproducible-builds](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reproducible-builds.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>)

## AI overview

Square describes how it uses the open-source Pants Build System to develop Java services in a large monorepo. The article discusses Pants 1.0, its installation and documentation improvements, reproducible builds, workflow and IDE integration, distributed caching, dependency management, and support for IntelliJ IDEA.

## Source excerpt

The Pants build system announced a 1.0 release.