This is a feature request to see if it is possible to remove hard dependency of h5py from pip install?
At the moment, keras_applications only have two dependencies in setup.py, one is numpy and another is h5py. From the source code in keras_applications, I couldn't find other reference os h5py.
I am raising this issue, because h5py could not be installed on Ubuntu 18.04 + python 3.8 (deadsnake/ppa). Also tensorflow depends on keras_applications so at the moment it is hard to make tensorflow wheel package for python 3.8.
If h5py is removed from setup.py in keras_applications then supporting python 3.8 would be easier for quite a few packages downstream.
Environment
Python version: 3.8
Keras version: n/a
Keras-applications version: 1.0.8
Keras backend with version: tensorflow master branch
Summary
This is a feature request to see if it is possible to remove hard dependency of h5py from pip install?
At the moment, keras_applications only have two dependencies in
setup.py, one isnumpyand another ish5py. From the source code in keras_applications, I couldn't find other reference os h5py.I am raising this issue, because h5py could not be installed on Ubuntu 18.04 + python 3.8 (
deadsnake/ppa). Alsotensorflowdepends onkeras_applicationsso at the moment it is hard to make tensorflow wheel package for python 3.8.If
h5pyis removed from setup.py in keras_applications then supporting python 3.8 would be easier for quite a few packages downstream.Environment
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