From f846bac918020d11a4f8b4af43c733cde2444201 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Keffer <tkeffer@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 15:14:59 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update .gitignore

---
 .gitignore | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index abf0fdda..ce331388 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ __pycache__
 # Ignore any misplaced virtual environments
 .venv
 venv
+dev_vend
 
 # Exclude all of the JetBrains .idea directory
 .idea

From 7cfde1ef8e37cf1180ff662ca063b7a6a8d02070 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Keffer <tkeffer@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 06:48:10 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Avoid overspecifying development environment

---
 TODO.md              |  4 ++
 dev_requirements.txt | 89 +++++---------------------------------------
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)

diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index 6c4bbe29..8ddc56d6 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
     method using vagrant
 
 
+## Documentation
+
+- tk Write up how to write an extension. Document extra arguments feature.
+
 ## Drivers
 
 - mw The `fousb` driver needs to be ported to Python 12.  post weewx 5.0 release
diff --git a/dev_requirements.txt b/dev_requirements.txt
index 773b0f94..70bb04cb 100644
--- a/dev_requirements.txt
+++ b/dev_requirements.txt
@@ -1,79 +1,10 @@
-attrs==24.2.0
-Babel==2.14.0
-backports.cached-property==1.0.2
-build==0.10.0
-CacheControl==0.12.14
-certifi==2025.8.3
-cffi==1.15.1
-charset-normalizer==3.4.3
-cleo==2.1.0
-click==8.1.8
-colorama==0.4.6
-configobj==5.0.9
-crashtest==0.4.1
-cryptography==45.0.7
-CT3==3.4.0
-distlib==0.4.0
-dulwich==0.21.7
-ephem==4.2
-filelock==3.12.2
-ghp-import==2.1.0
-html5lib==1.1
-idna==3.10
-importlib-metadata==6.7.0
-importlib-resources==5.12.0
-installer==0.7.0
-jaraco.classes==3.2.3
-jeepney==0.9.0
-Jinja2==3.1.6
-jsonschema==4.17.3
-keyring==23.13.1
-lockfile==0.12.2
-Markdown==3.4.4
-MarkupSafe==2.1.5
-mergedeep==1.3.4
-mkdocs==1.5.3
-mkdocs-material==9.2.7
-mkdocs-material-extensions==1.2
-more-itertools==9.1.0
-msgpack==1.0.5
-packaging==24.0
-paginate==0.5.7
-pathspec==0.11.2
-pexpect==4.9.0
-Pillow==9.5.0
-pkginfo==1.10.0
-pkgutil_resolve_name==1.3.10
-platformdirs==3.11.0
-poetry==1.5.1
-poetry-core==1.6.1
-poetry-plugin-export==1.4.0
-ptyprocess==0.7.0
-pycparser==2.21
-Pygments==2.17.2
-pymdown-extensions==10.2.1
-PyMySQL==1.1.1
-pyproject_hooks==1.2.0
-pyrsistent==0.19.3
-pyserial==3.5
-python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
-pytz==2025.2
-pyusb==1.2.1
-PyYAML==6.0.1
-pyyaml_env_tag==0.1
-rapidfuzz==3.4.0
-regex==2022.10.31
-requests==2.31.0
-requests-toolbelt==1.0.0
-SecretStorage==3.3.3
-shellingham==1.5.4
-six==1.17.0
-tomli==2.0.1
-tomlkit==0.12.5
-trove-classifiers==2025.9.11.17
-typing_extensions==4.7.1
-urllib3==1.26.20
-virtualenv==20.26.6
-watchdog==3.0.0
-webencodings==0.5.1
-zipp==3.15.0
+configobj>=5.0
+CT3>=3.1
+ephem>=4.1
+mkdocs
+mkdocs-material
+mkdocs-material-extensions
+Pillow>=5.2
+PyMySQL[cryptography]
+pyserial>=3.4
+pyusb>=1.0.2