Are dependency versions hard requirements, or the version that tests are done with?

[Grimler91]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. requirements.txt at the moment contains

SQLAlchemy==2.0.27
python-dateutil==2.8.2
cached-property==1.5.2
tqdm==4.66.2
garth>=0.4.44
fitfile>=1.1.7
tcxfile>=1.0.4
idbutils>=1.1.0

Are there features in SQLAlchemy 2.0.27 that are required, or could perhaps SQLAlchemy 1.4.X, or >= 2.0.0, work as well?

Basically I am wondering if versions are connected to features/big fixes or whether versions are set to match what you have on your system, and hence test with?

In particular SQLAlchemy > 2.0.0 seems to not have made it into many distros yet, looking at repology only a handful has it, so if 2.0.27 is a hard requirement then it is difficult to install GarminDB in most distros (but of course possible with pip and virtual python environments).

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[tcgoetz]

Definitely the version that was tested. In some cases their are feature requirements.

[tcgoetz]

Teh recommended install is with pip in a virtual environment.

[Grimler91]

Thanks, that clears it up!