I have several packages that have some extra dependencies for testing. There's tests_require in setup.py, but there's also extras_require where you can add a 'test'. The extras_require is what I use now. In buildout's [test] section, you simply do something like: [test] recipe = ... eggs = my.egg my.egg[test] With recent buildout versions, a 'my.other.egg[test]' in my.egg's 'test' extras_require is also picked up OK. But: I don't want to look in all my dependencies whether they have or haven't got a 'test' extras_require. The main problem surfaces when using a test-all runner like plone.recipe.alltests: you don't want to figure out for all those package's whether they have such a 'test' extras_require... So: any ideas on how to deal with this? Alternative setups? Use test_requires? Should test runners pick it up automagically? Is there something plone.recipe.alltests could do? Reinout -- Reinout van Rees - reinout@vanrees.org - http://reinout.vanrees.org Software developer at http://www.thehealthagency.com "Military engineers build missiles. Civil engineers build targets"