Thank you for looking into this! Another benefit alongside ease of install and discoverability, is that it makes the requirements files of projects using Django more self-documenting (in that it avoids stray dependency entries that appear to be unused, but actually aren't - and so need a comment to explain what uses them). See also the related open ticket https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/27682.
Re the single package entries, I think there is still value in having them, so long as they are named by feature rather than by package name. eg `Django[crypto]` vs `Django[bcrypt]`. This allows the particular choice of library to be a Django implementation detail that can be adjusted without needing requirements file changes. Ed On Monday, 11 December 2017 10:26:11 UTC, jr...@leukeleu.nl wrote: > > Django has a number of optional features that require the installation of > additional Python packages. > > > Right now it's possible to $ pip install Django[bcrypt,argon2] to install > Django and the optional packages (at the correct minimum version) required > for bcrypt/argon2 support. > > > However this is not possible for other optional features, like > database/cache backend, gis, certain image related features etc. > > I've created a pull request adding the optional dependencies found in the > test requirements: https://github.com/django/django/pull/9440 / > https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/28905 > > So end users can do things like: > > > $ pip install Django[mysql,sqlparse,images,memcached] > $ pip install Django[postgresql,gis] > $ pip install Django[selenium,test-parallel] > > > Not only would this make it much easier to install a particular > combination of Django and optional dependencies correctly, it also makes > some of the optional features/dependencies a little bit more discoverable. > This might not the full set of optional dependencies, or the right > grouping/naming, so a review is more than welcome (i.e. should sqlparse > be added to the mysql/oracle extra requirements? Should a sqlite extra be > added that only includes sqlparse?). > > Besides adding this to setup.py, additional changes to the documentation, > test instructions and scripts, code warnings etc. will probably be > necessary. > > If anyone objects to adding these extra requirements I'd also like to hear > about it. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/8cb27037-757b-4d19-893f-0e4cd83700c6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
