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Reducing number of dependencies

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We are using asciimatics with an embedded device and it requires lots of dependencies. The main offender is Pillow which also requires 3-6 other dependencies and some of them do not compile very well for anything other than basic i386/amd64 platforms. I also noticed that sub dependencies are some sort of imaging libraries for jpeg and png and I can hardly imagine they have anything to do with TUI library. So, would it be possible to remove dependency on Pillow and revisit other dependencies as well.

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Created 6 years ago
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peterbrittaincommented, Nov 17, 2019

Ok - let’s make that the plan of record. Will convert the install when I bump the major version.

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peterbrittaincommented, Oct 11, 2019

Hmmm… Looks like that PR has been dropped. Maybe the suggestion of specifying a blank extras definition will do the trick here?

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