Required dependencies are a bit much

[russelldc]

It'd be nice to install this without having to downgrade to torch 1.7.1 (as well as torchvision and some others).
It seems like this is being forced by the clip-by-openai package on pypi. Not sure I trust a random package like this (plus it's behind on commits by a few months), and I'd recommend installing directly from the official git repo.
I'm not sure if this can work inside a requirements.txt file, but this is what I usually do:
pip install git+https://github.com/openai/CLIP

I have an alternative in just doing a pip install memery --no-deps but then I'd have to gather all the missing dependencies manually.

[russelldc]

From some quick googling/stackoverflowing, seems like it'd work fine in a requirements.txt file too:
git+https://github.com/openai/CLIP.git

[deepfates]

Thanks! I will test this out. I think there was a problem with using external repos from settings.ini but I don't remember why. Certainly don't want to drag in anything unnecessarily.

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[deepfates]

I see that the official CLIP repo recommends using Torch 1.7.1. Have you been using it fine with a different version @russelldc ?

[russelldc]

I think that was changed since this commit (to be 1.7.1 and above, not just a hard requirement on 1.7.1):
openai/CLIP@db20393

[deepfates]

Okay, I have updated the dependencies. Found that PyPi doesn't allow install_requires to have dependencies on external repos, like "clip@git+https://github.com/openai/CLIP.git", but instead can use dependency_links which is built from dep_links in settings.ini. Hopefully it builds correctly from pip now, if anyone can give it a try and let me know that would be great

[deepfates]

Scratch that, it seems this doesn't work due to many reasons including the fact there's already something called clip in PyPi. Tried converting it to huggingface repo but they use a different forward pass system and it's a pain to translate.

I'm planning to switch to Jina soon anyway so maybe that will paper over all these issues

[wkrettek]

Is a Jina refactor still on the table?