Anthony Sottile <asott...@umich.edu> added the comment: >>> I should have to start that package somehow. >> >> `pip install` is a pretty good opt-in already imo > > Except that it conflates responsibilities. I may not want to opt into > coverage even being loaded in my application because I’m not going to use it > and it has a negative impact on my application’s start up time. Yet because > you’re on the same machine and you pip installed it, I have no choice but to > pay those costs, which I haven’t explicitly opted in to.
At least for the coverage plugins there is a required opt in from environment variable (as shown above). Though the startup cost is a good point. Perhaps I'm of the minority but I use virtualenvs for everything so I haven't even been considering the system python. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33944> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
