the tiled.server and tiled.client modules are intended to be kept seperate to allow dependencies to be kept minimal in each. However, this is not enforced except by code review which is falliable. Configuring a linting step to ensure that certain packages are not able to import from each other would prevent this happening.

e.g. dodal has configured importlinter to prevent circular imports

[tool.importlinter]
root_package = "dodal"

[[tool.importlinter.contracts]]
name = "Common cannot import from beamlines"
type = "forbidden"
source_modules = ["dodal.common"]
forbidden_modules = ["dodal.beamlines"]

[[tool.importlinter.contracts]]
name = "Enforce import order"
type = "layers"
layers = ["dodal.plans", "dodal.beamlines", "dodal.devices"]

This may also be useful for enforcing optional dependencies are not misused?