Discussion: should black and other packages be moved from requirements.txt
redbaron4 opened this issue · 1 comments
Currently requirements.txt has a host of packages that are at most needed in release prep or testing the package but not used in the production code. E.g. black, isort or flake8.
The downside of this is that the installation in production is unnecessarily bloated and may even conflict with other packages (which may specify a different version of the same packages). Another side effect is that since black is not out of pre-release, installation requires explicilty enabling pre-release in pip.
Is it possible to remove these from requirements.txt and put them in a separate file, so that any release processing tools that explicitly need them can do a pip install -r newfile and do the work?
Ah well.. I think requirements.txt is not consulted during a normal pip install. SO issue is not relevant