A look into workflow tools - package management in the Python extension for VS Code

[pradyunsg (Pradyun Gedam)]

@pf_moore

Maybe we need to cover that here (probably in a separate thread) and get consensus before implementing something in pip that would effectively become the de-facto approach?

Let’s do that here (to avoid hijacking this thread):

Projects that aren't meant to generate a wheel and `pyproject.toml`

And… I think using project.dependencies is OK even in projects that don’t intend to generate a wheel. Even for projects that aren’t intended to be wheels, specifying this information in this form seems like a good idea to me. That said, PEP 621 states that name and version are required. Further, given the lack of pip install --only-deps at the moment, there isn’t really any way for users to only-install-dependencies when specified in this manner. Assuming that feature happens[1], do folks hav…