Are all dependencies required to run the software?

[MatthewFlamm]

A lot of packages are installed when doing pip install spicy-vki that do not look neccessary for an end user, for example numpydoc, sphinx, sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml. Consider removing numpydoc and any other non-needed packages from:

SPICY_VKI/spicy_vki/setup.py

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	REQUIRED = [
	"numpy>=1.20",
	"matplotlib>=3.3.0",
	"scikit-learn>=1.0",
	"ipython>=7.16.1",
	"scipy>=1.5",
	"shapely>=1.7.0",
	"numpydoc>=1.1.0"
	]

[MatthewFlamm]

ipython, numpydoc, and matplotlib all look to me only to be related to documentation building, but I haven't tested thoroughly.

[MatthewFlamm]

Some of these dependencies are not be required for the package itself, but are used in the tutorials or documentation building. In that case, there should be separate instructions for installing the packages or maybe a requirements.txt file that is available for installing the packages for the tutorials. Another option would be to use optional dependencies like pip install spciy-vki[tutorial].

[mendezVKI]

I removed "numpydoc>=1.1.0". Concerning the tutorials, we followed your suggestion and created an installation with optional dependencies. This was also updated in the documentation.