I am working on a package and want to use the datalab queryClient but have been finding the astropy requirements to be too strict for my use case. For example, the astropy affiliated synphot package requires astropy >= 6.1 while the datalab package couldn't have astropy>=5.4.
I investigated this a little and I think the reasons for these constraints was because astropy changed their API for the VOTable so the tests for the helper.util.convert method were failing and because the specutils was not allowing astropy>6 until recently. After installing the newer version of specutils and astropy and fixing the test cases for this package I think everything still appears stable (at least all of the unit tests pass and my code using the queryClient works still!).
But, I know I may be missing something here for why the astropy version requirement was so strict previously. I look forward to your feedback and working with you on this!
Hi datalab core developers!
I am working on a package and want to use the datalab queryClient but have been finding the astropy requirements to be too strict for my use case. For example, the astropy affiliated
synphotpackage requiresastropy >= 6.1while the datalab package couldn't haveastropy>=5.4.I investigated this a little and I think the reasons for these constraints was because astropy changed their API for the VOTable so the tests for the helper.util.convert method were failing and because the
specutilswas not allowingastropy>6until recently. After installing the newer version of specutils and astropy and fixing the test cases for this package I think everything still appears stable (at least all of the unit tests pass and my code using thequeryClientworks still!).But, I know I may be missing something here for why the astropy version requirement was so strict previously. I look forward to your feedback and working with you on this!