Greykite pins dependencies to old versions and cannot be installed with other packages in general (or not easily)

[fkiraly]

The greykite package - as released on pypi pins all its dependencies to exact versions or narrow version ranges.

This is not a good idea, as this makes installation together with other packages very difficult, and impossibly for any other package with a comparably narrow, but different version range for one of the dependencies in question.

A number of these are, in addition, very outdated versions of packages, e.g., pandas 1.X (now on 2.2) or scikit-learn 1.3.1 (now on 1.6) - pandas may be sensible due to some breaking changes in v2, but there should not be a need ot pin scikit-learn==1.3.1.

I would suggest to adopt larger possible ranges for the dependencies.

[Reza1317]

We will extend some of these ranges in next releases and will update the packages as well.

If you have some specific system or example of something which is broken, please provide that specific example.

scikit-learn was pinned because there is a bug in scikit-learn (which was resolved on github: scikit-learn PR #30610) but newest version was not yet on pypi. This solved the problem for many installations. But we do plan to extend the range of this one.

In summary, I did spend quite sometime to resolve some lingering issues and pushed a change to unblock folks. This version should be a lot better and I have removed the unnecessary dependency on pmdarima. I did pin that one to a version that does work as a hint to users in case anyone wants to use that still through greykite.

But it does need more work to update some packages and increase some ranges, so the suggestion is valid.

[fkiraly]

If you have some specific system or example of something which is broken, please provide that specific example.

No specific examples, I think it is just the entire dependency management policy that needs rework here.

Suggestion: try to aim for wide ranges and removing any pins. There should be no pins whatsoever in the set of core dependencies (you can pin dev dependencies or CI dependencies, those do not hinder the typical user).

If you have problems with a version, you can work with upper bounds or "not-equal" conditions.