does snews_pt need so many specific package requirements?

[sybenzvi]

I noticed the current requirements list in snews_pt is pretty specific about all package versions. This seems a bit excessive for most of the requirements, though any dependency on the hop client probably has to be tied to a specific hop minor release. Can we clean this up?

[joesmolsky]

Other than hop-client, I don't know if any packages need to be a specific version. I think python needs to be 3.7-3.10 and that is not included in the requirements file. Should it be?

It might be a couple weeks-months before I have time to look into this in detail and test different dependencies. I think @Storreslara or @KaraMelih made the original requirements file and might know more about if specific versions are required for any packages.

[KaraMelih]

I believe the Python version can be enforced within the setup.py file and not the requirements file.

hop-client and maybe click, setuptools, might require specific versions but the rest should be rather flexible. I agree that one of us should test and relax the requirements

[sybenzvi]

OK, I'll come back to this next week and see if we can eliminate the specific versioning for most of the requirements. If it causes problems we'll just roll back the changes.