protobuf version upper limit set to 4.0.0

[hadim]

🚀 Feature

The current version of allowed protobuf is set to <4.0.0 which makes it hard to use aim in a stack with a more updated protobuf version.

Would that be possible to remove that constraint?

[gorarakelyan]

thanks @hadim, we will look into it.
@mihran113 @alberttorosyan tagging you, so you are aware of this thread.

[mihran113]

There were some compatibility issues with protobuf v4 that's why we've limited the upper version, will look into it to see what's possible to do about that.

[hadim]

Thanks guys.

FYI: I am currently trying to build the latest version on conda-forge: conda-forge/aim-feedstock#14. It's a bit of work since it also requires a couple of other packages to be created or to update (see conda-forge/aim-feedstock#14 (comment)).

Being able to lower the number of upper bound version for important deps (protobuf and fastapi for example) would be really great to be able to integrate smoothly aim in any existing stack.

[mihran113]

We'll remove the upper limits of fastapi with the v3.16.0 of aim, as we're planning to drop the support for python3.6, will work on this too. :)

[mihran113]

Hey @hadim! The protobuf's upper limits and also fastapi's as well has been dropped with the new 3.16.0 release.