PEP 735: Dependency Groups in pyproject.toml

[ofek (Ofek Lev)]

@brettcannon

@sirosen

If some tools do an editable install and some do not, users will always have the question “why?”
I don’t think that question is escapable – I just want to have a good, coherent answer.

Same reason some tools used to have dependency groups and others did not: not all tools have the same feature set and that’s okay (else the tools are the same and they are just named differently ).

This coupled with a recent comment from Paul made something click in my mind that did not previously.

@pf_moore

I’d rather see a discussion about tools than about pyproject.toml. But much better than either, I’d rather see people developing tools instead of talking about them. We can standardise later, once the tools have established there’s a benefit to be had from a feature, and there’s something worth defining a common structure for.

Not just with the editable topic, but I think there is a push as of late to standardize/generalize all possible features that someone might use. I am uncomfortable with this and I do not think users desire it either actually.