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Proposal: Optional Packages

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5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
aws, python

Research direction

No implementation files or tests are named. Start by reading issue #37 and the referenced setuptools documentation on optional extras, then determine how optional packages should be represented while keeping lambda-packages thinner. Done means the package can expose the proposed optional package groups and the intended imports remain available for AWS Lambda.

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Description

I think that we should allow some sort of optional packages, where in one way we will be able to import a lot of packages into Lambda [see #37], and lambda-packages will be thinner.

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