I'd like to request the creation of a new submodule, tools/depinst, that will contain a Python script depinst.py which would, given a module in libs/, install the dependencies needed for running that module's tests. Currently, the .travis.yml files I use enumerate the dependencies manually, which is a bit tiresome: https://github.com/boostorg/function/blob/develop/.travis.yml - git submodule init libs/algorithm - git submodule init libs/align ... - git submodule init libs/type_traits - git submodule init libs/typeof - git submodule init libs/utility - git submodule init libs/winapi - git submodule init tools/build - git submodule update --depth 1 This will be replaced by just - git submodule update --init --depth 1 tools/depinst - git submodule update --init --depth 1 tools/build - python tools/depinst/depinst.py function