The optional-features "extra" environment marker extension covers the test requirements case and any other class of optional dependencies. On Feb 3, 2013 4:37 PM, "Vinay Sajip" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > With Donald Stufft's assistance, I've created a new draft of PEP 426. > > For the moment I'm listed as a co-author and no longer as > > BDFL-Delegate - there's a separate discussion on python-dev about > > that. > > Still digesting the draft, but I notice that there's no specific provision > for > identifying dependencies that are only needed for tests (such as, say, > nose). > Distribute/setuptools distinguish between three types of dependency: setup, > install and test. The benefit of keeping the test dependencies separate > from the > setup dependencies is that they needn't be downloaded unless you're going > to run > tests. Would it make sense to add a Test-Requires-Dist multiple-use field? > > Regards, > > Vinay Sajip > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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