GSoC progress update: dependencies rant#
I was going to contribute my biggest PR, the direct beam shading factor via 3d spatial calculus. I developed an OOP approach that uses shapely for the geometric operations. However, thanks to an user thread on the mailing list, I found that solarfactors, a dependency of pvlib, has pinned the maximum version of shapely to anything lesser than 2.0.
This is a problem because I always try to use the latest versions of the libraries I depend on. I have been developing on shapely all that code, and now I have to refactor it to use the older version. Or, address an open issue on pvfactors (the original repo of solarfactors) to remove the dependency.
What’s more, nobody is able to install solarfactors on python 3.12 because of the setuptools maximum pinned version of that shapely version. Damn, wasn’t python the perfect language to surf on the latest trends?