[JOSS] Installation dependencies

[FlorianK13]

When installing pvdeg using pip install pvdeg there are many dependencies installed. Many dependencies make installations for users more cumbersome, as it might introduce dependency conflicts between different packages. Also with attacks like the shai-hulud thing it is always great to have a clean list of dependencies.
Looking at the pyproject.toml I see two dependencies that could be moved:

• pre-commit is probably used for dev and could be moved to the optional-dependencies
• jupyterlab is also a dependency that is not necessary for your software I guess? But here I am open for discussion
• Could you also check your dependencies? Maybe I oversaw some that could be moved or removed.

This issue is part of a joss review, see openjournals/joss-reviews#10617

[RDaxini]

Thank you for this suggestion, you make a good point here about the dependencies. You are right in thinking that pre-commit is only really revelant for developers, so I agree that we could move this to the list of optional dependencies. I will start by moving precommit as suggested, but I will also review the remaining dependencies.

[RDaxini]

This has been addressed in #347 and is pending review by @martin-springer. It will be merged into the development branch for the v0.7.2 release.

For now, I have just moved pre-commit to dev build option. We considered moving several modules related to geospatial analysis to a geo build option, but this ran into some issues explained in the PR. We think that moving pre-commit alone is already a valuable improvement and will limit the scope of the change to this alone for now. We may re-evaluate the dependencies again in future and consider more substantial refactoring.

[FlorianK13]

Great, I think it is totally up to you to decide which dependencies are needed when. From my site you can close this issue when the PR is merged.

[RDaxini]

Resolved by #347