Botocore: Consider removing docutils from dependencies

[rudyryk]

As far as I can see, docutils package is only required for developing botocore itself and can be left out for botocore users.

I'd suggest considering to remove docutils from package dependencies as it adds significant time overhead to the installation process.

[Fale]

I did not noticed this one but I opened #933 for the same reason

[JordonPhillips]

Just to copy over some info from the linked PR:

I think we'll need to first move textwriter.py up to the CLI (where it's used) before we can merge this.

[amw]

I was also surprised finding documentation utility as a direct dependency of a SDK package. I think the issue is significant, because docutils uses non-trivial license. Parts of it are even covered by GPL3.

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/COPYING.html

[yan12125]

Besides aws-cli, aws-shell also uses botocore.docs.bcdoc.textwriter [1]. As aws-shell appears to have been abandoned (last commit is from 2018), I don't think it is a blocker for moving the textwriter module from botocore to aws-cli, as implemented in [2].

[1] https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell/blob/0.2.1/awsshell/makeindex.py#L8
[2] https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/pull/4917

[kapilt]

I was also surprised finding documentation utility as a direct dependency of a SDK package. I think the issue is significant, because docutils uses non-trivial license. Parts of it are even covered by GPL3.

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/COPYING.html

the gpl part is just the emacs integration which is not part of the distributed assets on pypi, ie its not part of the package, its just present in their repo.

[nateprewitt]

This should now be resolved in botocore 1.18.0.