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pip integration: figure out feature gating in pip-audit #336

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Breakout from #335: we need to design an ergonomic "feature gate" scheme for pip-audit, to handle the following deployments:

  • python -m pip install pip-audit (and all third-party packages): support for SBOM generation, the OSV vulnerability service, etc.
  • pip audit: no support for -s osv, --format=spdx-..., etc.

Some ideas:

  • If "default" extras were possible, we could define osv and spdx extras that pip install would activate by default. Unfortunately, default extras are currently not possible.
  • We could probably get away with a single feature flag, something like pip_audit.VENDORED_INTO_PIP, which we then just use to remove a handful of CLI options and prevent importing pip_audit._format.cyclonedx.

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