(pre-publish) PEP 771: Default Extras for Python Software Packages

[trobitaille (Thomas Robitaille)]

The published version has now been updated, and I have now started a new thread here:

PEP 771: Default Extras for Python Software Packages

Hi everyone, Along with @jonathandekhtiar we have written PEP 771: Default Extras for Python Software Packages which is now published as a draft! Short summary For anyone who hasn’t seen a previous version of this PEP, in short the aim of this PEP is to propose a way for Python packages to define one or more extras that get installed by default if no extras are explicitly specified. The two main cases this aims to solve are: packages that have recommended but not required dependencies that …