[FEATURE] Improve requirements

[mjspeck]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

A cleaner way to manage dependencies is crucial at the beginning of a project to reduce technical debt and allow collaboration and development. The current requirements.txt has a ton of pinned dependencies which is not optimal and very difficult to update.

Describe the solution you'd like

I propose using a dependency manager like Poetry or PDM (my preference) to handle this and to replace the current requirements.txt. This would mean a few files would be added:

• pyproject.toml
• pdm.lock

And some removed:

• requirements.txt
• setup.py

[mjspeck]

If this sounds useful, I'm happy to implement it myself and post a PR.

[joshbickett]

@mjspeck this could make sense. Is it sufficient that pip install self-operating-computer downloads what's required or is there an issue with that for you?

[mjspeck]

I haven't had issues on my side. I just think long term it will be better to deal with this now. Leaving the issue lingering will make it harder to deal with and dependency hell is something to avoid at all costs IMO.

[joshbickett]

@mjspeck I am curious for the reason for removing setup.py

[mjspeck]

It's just not necessary anymore. Everything defined in setup.py can be defined in the pyproject.toml.

[joshbickett]

@mjspeck Does pyproject.toml upload to PyPI to be indexed? That's what setup.py does

[mjspeck]

You don't need setup.py for that. You can still use python -m build to build and then twine to upload, or, as I'd suggest, just use pdm for this: https://pdm-project.org/latest/usage/publish/

[joshbickett]

@mjspeck ok, thanks for the input. I'll take a closer look at this switch

[mjspeck]

Thank you! My PR should be pretty straightforward