Interface module cannot converge after BioSTEAM/Thermosteam updates (test temporarily disabled)

[yalinli2]

See details in the failed test on QSDsan:
https://github.com/QSD-Group/QSDsan/actions/runs/5235788112

Not yet sure what happened, will try to fix it (or wait till it miraculously fixes itself, 🙄), temporarily disabled the test for the interface module for now.

[hccroll]

Hello @yalinli2 I am new to QSDsan/EXPOsan and this error appears to be preventing me from installing the package. Do know if there is a work-around for now? Thanks in advance.

[yalinli2]

@hccroll interesting, I didn't expect this to be preventing installation, can you post the entirety of the error here?

[hccroll]

Using Colab python 3.10.12:

!pip install exposan

ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
tensorflow 2.12.0 requires numpy<1.24,>=1.22, but you have numpy 1.24.3 which is incompatible.

!pip install numpy==1.22

ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
librosa 0.10.0.post2 requires numpy!=1.22.0,!=1.22.1,!=1.22.2,>=1.20.3, but you have numpy 1.22.0 which is incompatible.
thermosteam 0.35.0 requires numpy>=1.24.2, but you have numpy 1.22.0 which is incompatible.

When I saw this as a recent issue thanks to the Themesteam updates, I assumed that they must have updated their requirement for numpy at the same time. This may be an incorrect assumption, but it seems like a strange coincidence. Currently looking to see if forcing an older version of thermosteam fixes the issue.

[yalinli2]

@hccroll oh it's actually unrelated haha, you can see the reason for numpy version requirement here: #34
chaospy, one of biosteam's dependency, started having problems with numpy at some point and seems to be fixed with the newer version.

Since tensorflow (it isn't a dependency package of biosteam/thermosteam or qsdsan/exposan) requires older numpy, hence the conflicts.

You could try force installing the newer numpy, if it does cause problem for tensorflow or other packages you use, it'll be best to have different environments to management them

[yalinli2]

As an update, it's still not converging, maybe the mock system we designed isn't good at all... we can use BSM2 config for testing when it's done.

[yalinli2]

Closing this issue since the interface module has been updated to bsm2, see #44