html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4987#issuecomment-790782639,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4987,790782639,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc5MDc4MjYzOQ==,226037,2021-03-04T17:16:48Z,2021-03-04T17:22:31Z,MEMBER,"@jp-dark it is in fact possible to write an _xarray_ backend without explicitly depending on _xarray_ in your `setup.py` if you put all your backend glue code in a separate module not imported by the main `__init__.py`.

We use the setuptools entrypoints infrastructure that triggers a module load only from within _xarray_ itself.

This is still work in progress, but we are implementing this strategy in _cfgrib_ with success. You can get inspiration from the following PR by @aurghs:

https://github.com/ecmwf/cfgrib/pull/203
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