Requests version in extensions

[AntonioSousa]

For historical reasons, I have been adding
"install_requires": ["requests>=2.6.0"],
in the plugin.json file of extensions.

Now, this inclusion inflates the extension more than 600 KB. A simple extension can have a few KBs, but with the "install_requires" above, it goes above 610 KB...

I believe this requirement has been supported for a very long time, so I'm taking it out from my extensions. But does anyone know of any associated risk?

[Mike_L · Accepted solution]

In Extensions Framework 1.0 the requests library is included with the plugin agent and is automatically added to the sys.path. Unless you need a specific version, you can get rid of it and just use the one that comes with the plugin agent.

[AntonioSousa]

I was a little afraid that older ActiveGates would still have older versions of requests. But I have just checked AG 1.237, and it comes with requests 2.25.1. So I agree there is no risk 🙂