7. Installing developer environment

Date: 2023-01-18

Status

Accepted

Context

We need to provide a way to setup a developer environment for a skeleton based project.

Decision

Use optional dependencies in pyproject.toml.

PEP 621 provides a mechanism for adding optional dependencies in pyproject.toml https://peps.python.org/pep-0621/#dependencies-optional-dependencies.

We supply a list of developer dependencies under the title “dev”. These developer dependencies enable building and testing the project and its documentation.

Consequences

Any developer can update their virtual environment in order to work on a skeleton based project with the command:

`bash pip install -e .[dev] `