[Distutils] Requires-Dist: unittest2; 'test' in extras

[PJ Eby]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Erik Bray <erik.m.bray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:35 PM, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> It looks like you can only install one extra at a time,
> >
> >
> > Actually, you can specify more than one, using commas.  e.g.
> "easy_install
> > foo[testing,c-extensions,celery-support,...]".
>
> Would we want this to look the same way for pysetup?  Something like
> `pysetup install foo[tests,docs]`?  That would be a pretty nice way to
> handle docs, tests, and other miscellaneous extra requirements.  I
> like the idea of using environment markers for that and not having to
> add any new metadata fields.
>
> Using an environment marker might also work for some kind of
> build-requires, though support for that would still require some
> special machinery.
>

Since I haven't used pysetup yet, I couldn't really say.  I can say that
some people have mentioned that they find setuptools' "extras" mechanism to
be confusing, unnecessary, or a tool in search of a usecase.  I'm not
terribly attached to them, but I prefer them to the solution that e.g.
Celery uses.  Celery has various dummy distributions on PyPI like
"celery-with-couchdb" that exist only to pull in extras, and it only needs
them because some packaging tools don't support extras.  (ISTR that pip
doesn't support them.)
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