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Introduce a shared pattern for python test libraries
Lots of collections have pip requirements that are needed for testing but not for use. Probably most of them.
Right now we maintain the exclude list:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-builder/blob/e531bafd06cadb954c7b8aaaeb52b29179d8a127/ansible_builder/requirements.py#L7-L17
A better way to configure this would be to allow the collection to specify a separate requirements file for test requirements.
Someone might also be interested in an ansible-builder option to produce an EE that includes test requirements. We would need to separate our exclude list into "always exclude" and "exclude for non-test".
Ping @thedoubl3j
Very much related to https://github.com/ansible/ansible-builder/issues/210, and we should think through a pattern that applies equally to both these topics.
If we have a "default" location of build-requirements.txt top-level in a collection, then test-requirements.txt seems like the obvious place for test requirements. Of course, we would need a way to give a special location with the meta/ EE metadata for collections.
Some versions of this pattern have already occurred in collections.