Dynamic dependencies for requirements.txt

[maresb]

Since project.dependencies is just a list of strings, it's equivalent to a text file.

It would be useful to be able to specify

[project]
dynamic = ["dependencies"]

[tool.hatch.dependencies]
path = "requirements.txt"

My particular motivation for this case would be with Docker, which uses file-level caching. Being able to split the version and dependencies into separate files makes it easier to avoid cache-busting.

Would it make sense to implement such a feature? Thanks for such an awesome tool! I wish I had discovered it sooner.

[ofek]

https://github.com/repo-helper/hatch-requirements-txt listed under https://hatch.pypa.io/latest/plugins/metadata-hook/reference/#known-third-party

[maresb]

Wonderful, thanks so much for the reference! It's great that it already exists. (In retrospect I'm not sure how I missed that in the docs...)

[ofek]

No worries!