In our package, we have a number of dependencies used for testing only. For end users of our package, we don’t wish to enforce those dependencies. It seems that the suggested way of achieving this is using Test-specific dependencies . The problem with that technique is that, as far as I can tell, it…

Test-specific dependencies

fredrikekre September 27, 2018, 9:17am 2

Seems like a perfect opportunity to use your own project files for this. See e.g. how you can use this for doc-dependencies PSA: Use a project for building your docs

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Test-specific dependencies

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