Dependencies of CI/CD on Windows platform

[drbeh]

Describe the bug
Right now CI/CD is set to install the first 12 dependencies for Windows platform, so it excludes any new dependency. Shouldn't we specifically exclude the ones that are not running on Windows instead?

[drbeh]

@wyli @Nic-Ma @rijobro
Do you know what are the troublesome dependencies for Windows platform that need to be excluded?

[drbeh]

Is there any reason we are relying on requirement files instead of setup.cfg?

[Nic-Ma]

Hi @wyli ,

Could you please help share some comments here as you developed the CI / CD files before, I don't remember clearly.

Thanks in advance.

[wyli]

requirements.txt seems to work nicely with the pip command, and we can't fully rely on setup.cfg only because there are modern methods such as pep518 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/

[wyli]

most of the deps declare support for windows, but in practice it's difficult to ensure consistent cross-platform behaviour from our side. currently we have the preliminary tests to cover the first 12 essential packages. the skipped ones are just code type/style checking on windows, which are not really essential for us