Why doesn't onnxruntime-openvino specify the openvino package as a requirement?

[adrianboguszewski]

Describe the issue

While installing onnxruntime-openvino via pip, the openvino package is not installed by default. One doesn't know:

1. they must install openvino separetely
2. which version of openvino they must install
   unless they look to the release notes/docs (imagine how many people abandon the process at this stage).

To reproduce

pip install onnxruntime-openvino

Urgency

No response

Platform

Windows

OS Version

11

ONNX Runtime Installation

Released Package

ONNX Runtime Version or Commit ID

1.17.1

ONNX Runtime API

Python

Architecture

X64

Execution Provider

OpenVINO

Execution Provider Library Version

No response

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[adrianboguszewski]

Don't close. The issue hasn't been solved yet as far as I know.

[henryruhs]

@adrianboguszewski It's more like a peerDependency - openvino can be installed via conda as well.

[adrianboguszewski]

@henryruhs could you elaborate more on what a peer dependency means?

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[adrianboguszewski]

Still not resolved...

[henryruhs]

Should not be resolved anyway...

A peer dependency describes a loosy dependency that is either optional or that version cannot be specified. Giving the consumer more freedom.

In this case we can choose to install OpenVino in different ways like pip or conda. Which is a good thing.

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