nations of the packages can be created without the need to copy package names multiple times. @var _EXTRAS_REQUIRE: C{extras_require} is a dictionary of items that can be passed to setup.py to install optional dependencies. For example, to install the optional dev dependencies one would type:: pip install -e ".[dev]" This has been supported by setuptools since 0.5a4. @var _PLATFORM_INDEPENDENT: A list of all optional cross-platform dependencies, as setuptools version specifiers, used to populate L{_EXTRAS_REQUIRE}. @var _EXTENSIONS: The list of L{ConditionalExtension} used by the setup process. @var notPortedModules: Modules that are not yet ported to Python 3. é