Rename `requirements.txt` in this repo to prevent confusion from users vs package devs

[chriddyp]

Several users have thought that installing therequirements.txt in this project is the correct way to install the necsesary dependencies for dash (rather than visiting dash.plot.ly/installation). See #433 (comment) and some of the issues in https://github.com/plotly/dash/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+requirements.txt.

Is there any way that we can help prevent these issues? Thoughts:

• Rename requirements.txt to something like contributing_requirements.txt or place it in a folder like contributing/requirements.txt
• Perhaps we can add a "Quickstart" link at the very top of the README.md with a link to https://dash.plot.ly/installation

[ned2]

I see dev_requirements.txt used a bit for this purpose. But putting it in a folder I think would be the safest option. Contributors will be reading the contributing instructions anyway before they start, so discovery is not an issue for them.

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[T4rk1n]

We don't even use the requirements.txt, was made with pip freeze, the versions are locked and probably out of date. pip freeze never makes good requirements files IMO, it includes dependencies of dependencies so it includes a bunch of packages that should be managed by their dependents instead. We use the dev-requirements.txt and dev-requirements-37.txt. So I guess we could delete it and move the other two in a folder like .circleci/requirements/....

[chriddyp]

Cool, that sounds good @T4rk1n