SQLAlchemy should be an extra/optional dependency

[pcroland]

I think SQLAlchemy should be an optional dependency. I do a pyinstaller build for one of my tools. The tool fetches some titles from an IMDb ID and I don't use any feature that would require SQLAlchemy, but it adds 13MBs to the package.

[uyar]

This was discussed in #75. Personally I agree but it would be quite a breaking change.

[pcroland]

Is there a way with poetry to not install it or add a dummy package as SQLAlchemy? I'm interested in any hacky solution.

[uyar]

Is there a way with poetry to not install it or add a dummy package as SQLAlchemy? I'm interested in any hacky solution.

With poetry, I don't know. Manually removing it (and its dependencies) from the lock file might work. For pip, there's the no-deps option but that would mean manually installing the other dependencies (lxml).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12759761/pip-force-install-ignoring-dependencies/12759996#12759996

[uyar]

Or you could run your own extra PyPI server and put a dummy SQLAlchemy package there.