[Distutils] Parsing requirements, pip has no API ...

[Marcus Smith]

In 90% of the cases I see, requirements.txt are used to define the

> requirements for the project to function which typically are the exact
> same requirements necessary when installing the project. People also
> will then write a test-requirements.txt (or dev-requirements.txt) file
> to have a complete development environment. In this case, Thomas seems
> to be using requirements.txt to define the requirements necessary when
> installing the software they're developing.
>
> If requirements.txt were used solely for a development environment,
> they would look more like
>
> | .
> | dev-requirement-1>=0.1
> | # etc.
>
> Instead they seem to be used more to define the same requirements
> someone would define in install_requires. This is the anti-pattern I'm
> talking about.
>

understood, I hear you, but for a breakdown of some valid use cases, the
pip docs covers 4 good use cases

https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/user_guide.html#requirements-files
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