Request to update sentencepiece requirement to 0.1.96

[tobiasb96]

Dear Flair developers,

we have noticed a minor version complication when installing Flair on our machines. We are using Python 3.10 and encountered the problem of sentencepiece not being installed properly due to a missing wheel on PyPi.

They released the version 0.1.96 last year which should contain minor, non-breaking changes according to their release notes. They have only published the builts for 0.1.95 for Python <= 3.9. Therefore we have to use a workaround when installing flair with Python 3.10.

Maybe it's possible to upgrade the version of sentencepiece in the requirements.txt or turn it into a "loose" requirement?

Thanks for your help!

[bastianwegge]

@alanakbik sorry to bug you with a closed issue, but is there a chance to get a patch-release for this? Maybe something like 0.11.1?

[alanakbik]

Hello @bastianwegge we've made some bigger changes so we'll likely release a 0.12.0 version in a few weeks (that will drop Python 3.6 support). In the meantime, you could install directly from master branch to get this fix.

[bastianwegge]

Thanks a lot for the update! We're looking forward to using 0.12.0 🙌

[sbwiecko]

Thank you @alanakbik, pip install git+https://github.com/flairNLP/flair solved the issue on my installation 👍

[Snowpile]

Dear Flair developers,

we have noticed a minor version complication when installing Flair on our machines. We are using Python 3.10 and encountered the problem of sentencepiece not being installed properly due to a missing wheel on PyPi.

They released the version 0.1.96 last year which should contain minor, non-breaking changes according to their release notes. They have only published the builts for 0.1.95 for Python <= 3.9. Therefore we have to use a workaround when installing flair with Python 3.10.

Maybe it's possible to upgrade the version of sentencepiece in the requirements.txt or turn it into a "loose" requirement?

Thanks for your help!

What was your work around for installing with Python 3.10?

[tobiasb96]

@Snowpile
We currently use the (ugly) solution of installing flair without dependencies and adding the required dependencies as well as the correct sentencepiece version (0.1.96) to our own requirements.txt