setup improved

dependencies for testing are now only installed on request

README.md

@@ -185,7 +185,12 @@ Please note that suppressing the messages means that you have to ensure on your
 
 ## Tests
 
-You can test the package by running
+You can test the package by installing the corresponding dependencies
+```bash
+pip install OSMPythonTools [test]
+# or: pip3 install OSMPythonTools [test]
+```
+and then running
 ```bash
 pytest --verbose
 ```

setup.py

@@ -19,11 +19,15 @@
         'matplotlib',
         'numpy',
         'pandas',
-        'pytest',
-        'pytest-sugar',
         'ujson',
         'xarray',
     ],
+    extras_require={
+        'test': [
+            'pytest',
+            'pytest-sugar',
+        ],
+    },
     version=pkgVersion,
     author='Franz-Benjamin Mocnik',
     author_email='[email protected]',

version-history.md

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Observe that some of the following versions include breaking changes:
 * [feature] access to history
 * [feature] caching strategies introduced
 * [feature] caching strategy `CachingStrategyPickle`
+* [improvement] dependencies for testing are now only installed on request
 * [improvement; breaking change] timestamps are now returned as objects
 * [bug] metadata did not work for Api queries
 * [minor bug] version was not returned as an integer