effigies
November 22, 2020, 1:48pm
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This is essentially my use case from Adding a default extra_require environment :
FWIW, here is a use case that I have. I’ll be concrete, but hopefully not so detailed as to be distracting.
The xarray package has two dependencies: numpy and pandas. My package uses numpy, and could use some features of xarray that don’t require pandas, but I don’t want to pull pandas into my dependency tree. (I’m willing to accept ImportErrors if my code accesses pandas-dependent features.)
As it stands, I would either need to convince them to break out the pandas-independent concepts into a…
I’m not sure if that thread was really winding around to some conclusion, but it seems to be a common enough desire that some kind of solution would be worth finding.
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