Hm...why would we still release

pantsbuild.pants.testutil

as a separate distribution to PyPI from

pantsbuild.pants

? I think we can simplify.

Who is this actively confusing or making life more complex for?

We might want to make that change, but it doesn't seem urgent to make it now?

The context is https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/13512. It simplifies this:

pants_requirement()
pants_requirement(dist="pantsbuild.pants.testutil")

To

pants_requirements()

But it got me thinking, what's the benefit of two dists in the first place?

and it might end up causing us to bundle future test time requirements into core pants (like a mocking library or something like that, in the future)

Ah good point! So we would probably want to have a

[test]

extra if we were to consolidate. And at that point, it's just a different typing from what we have before So, status quo does seem to have some reason to still be that way! Thanks