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requirements.txt includes apturl which is not pip-installable and breaks setup on Windows/macOS #96

@kunalsanga

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@kunalsanga

Description

While trying to set up the Grid-based strong lensing SISR project on a clean
Windows environment, pip install -r requirements.txt fails due to the
dependency apturl==0.5.2.

apturl is an OS-level Ubuntu package and is not available via pip, which makes
the current setup non-functional on Windows and macOS.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Create a fresh Python virtual environment
  2. Run pip install -r requirements.txt

Observed behavior

Installation fails with:
ERROR: No matching distribution found for apturl==0.5.2

Expected behavior

A new contributor should be able to install dependencies via pip on a
cross-platform environment.

Proposed fix

  • Remove apturl from requirements.txt
  • Document OS-specific/system dependencies separately if required
  • Optionally split dependencies into:
    • core (pip-installable)
    • system/optional

I’d be happy to submit a PR to address this.

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