Why pin runtime dependencies so tightly?

Hi,

Looking at the setup.py file, it looks like the following are all required runtime dependencies, all of which need to be pinned very precisely:

requirements = [    "Cython==0.29.23",    "cvxpy==1.1.12",    "fbprophet==0.5",    "holidays==0.9.10",  # 0.10.2,    "ipykernel==4.8.2",    "ipython==7.1.1",    "ipywidgets==7.2.1",    "jupyter==1.0.0",    "jupyter-client==6.1.5",    "jupyter-console==6.",  # used version 6 to avoid conflict with ipython version    "jupyter-core==4.7.1",    "matplotlib==3.4.1",    "nbformat==5.1.3",    "notebook==5.4.1",    "numpy==1.20.2",    "osqp==0.6.1",    "overrides==2.8.0",    "pandas==1.1.3",    "patsy==0.5.1",    "Pillow==8.0.1",    "plotly==3.10.0",    "pystan==2.18.0.0",    "pyzmq==22.0.3",    "scipy==1.5.4",    "seaborn==0.9.0",    "six==1.15.0",    "scikit-learn==0.24.1",    "Sphinx==3.2.1",    "sphinx-gallery==0.6.1",    "sphinx-rtd-theme==0.4.2",    "statsmodels==0.12.2",    "testfixtures==6.14.2",    "tornado==5.1.1",    "tqdm==4.52.0"]

My question is - why pin them so tightly, and are all of them really necessary? E.g. do I really need sphinx-gallery? Such tight pins make it very difficult to integrate into any existing project. Why not just require a lower bound for many/most of these?

[wilfreddesert]

I am not sure whether it’s related, but trying to do pip install greykite broke my Jupyter installation for me

[Reza1317]

Yes, I think most of these issues are related to prophet installation. We are working on a solution and it should be resolved in the next release which we hope to publish in a timely fashion. Please stay tuned for an update.