Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

Including external dependencies in your project

Sometimes, you can't install an external dependency with pip and have to include it directly within your project, such as in the following cases:

• When you have a patched third-party app where you yourself fixed a bug or added a feature that did not get accepted by project owners
• When you need to use private apps that are not accessible at the Python Package Index (PyPI) or public version control repositories
• When you need to use legacy versions of dependencies that are not available at PyPI anymore

Including external dependencies in your project ensures that whenever a developer upgrades the dependent modules, all of the other developers will receive the upgraded version in the next update ...