Allow latest version of botocore

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Tell us about your request

Please expand the range of botocore versions that the eb-cli is compatible with to include the latest version of botocore (1.23).

Tell us about the problem you’re trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?

The eb-cli currently requires 'botocore>=1.21.0,<1.22.0'. This tight range on botocore is fairly limiting for compatibility with other libraries. In particular, this library is incompatible with the current version of the aws-cli, which depends on 'botocore==1.23.31'.

Are you currently working around this issue?

Yes

How are you currently solving this problem?

This requires the different CLIs into different virtual environments, such as doing one CLI as a global install and the other in the project virtual environment. This is challenging for onboarding new developers.

[joshfriend]

I can understand the need to avoid version specs that are too loose where you might accidentally resolve a dependency that is too old/new and causes things to not work. however in those cases, an end user can pin the problematic versions on their app’s side.

When package dependency versions conflict with each other, poetry/pipenv will just not let you install them at all and you don’t really have any recourse besides developing an entirely separate install process for these tools.

[joshfriend]

>1.23.41,<1.24.0 is still an extremely narrow range. It was updated recently with commit 4c2fe06026da45e226994e9e5b6904fa88c51d73 which said: Update CHANGES.rst and increment version to 3.20.3. No explanation of why the minimum version increase makes a difference for the EB CLI.

It’s also not just botocore, it’s other dependencies too. six (#85, #38, #61), PyYAML (#5, #6), for example both have an excessively narrow version spec that prevents it from being installed along other tools like awscli or aws-sam-cli.