Run depsplorer on edx-platform

[dianakhuang]

Run https://github.com/Nathan-Furnal/depslorer on edx-platform to see if there are any interesting dependencies we don't need anymore.

Acceptance Criteria

• Get the results of a depslorer run
• Record them to this ticket
• Present at the next DEPR meeting

[Anakin100100]

I can try to work on this

[LakshyaKhatri]

Hi @dianakhuang! I gave it a try and I was able to find out the unused dependencies using desplorer. I've one question around this before I start digging deeper into checking which of the dependencies are actually not being used:

Right now, I'm only looking at the auto-generated *.txt files for deprecated packages, and then I'll use them as a reference to remove the unused dependencies in the *.in files. Am I heading in the right direction?

[LakshyaKhatri]

Here the output from desplorer: Desplorer Output.md

Note that this is just the raw output, a lot of the dependencies are coming from inherited parent requirement files. Also, some of the .in files don't have a corresponding .txt files. I've to check them. Although, all the requirement files look pretty well documented, hope that will help me to navigate around easily.

I'll post the update soon. 😄

[LakshyaKhatri]

Hi @dianakhuang! Attaching the detailed output of each package in the edx-platform repo: Unused packages.pdf

The sole package deserving a consideration for deprecation is packaging. I was planning to share my findings during the last DEPR meeting, but it appears the meeting may have been canceled?

Please advise on the next steps to proceed.

[dianakhuang]

@LakshyaKhatri thank you! The DEPR meetings should still be going on. You should be find the calendar invite on this google calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y192ODZzaHJuZWdzaHNxZ3A0Zmoyazk0dTdiY0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t

We are meeting next Thursday.

[LakshyaKhatri]

Thanks so much @dianakhuang. I will join this Thursday 😄 🙌🏽

[LakshyaKhatri]

Hello again @dianakhuang, 👋🏽

just confirming once: as per the discussion we are going to remove the following dependencies:

• packaging
• diff-cover

correct?

[dianakhuang]

@LakshyaKhatri yup!

[Abdujabbar]

@dianakhuang

Can I move forward with the current issue? Are you ok with that @LakshyaKhatri? If you don't have a time?

[LakshyaKhatri]

@Abdujabbar yes, please go ahead 👍🏽