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.github/workflows/docs.yaml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.8, "3.10"]  # Check the oldest and newest currently supported Python versions
+        python-version: [3.8, "3.11"]  # Check the oldest and newest currently supported Python versions
 
     steps:
 
@@ -41,9 +41,13 @@ jobs:
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
 
+    - name: Use latest version of pip
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+
     - name: Install Python dependencies including sphinx
       run: |
-        pip3 install --user -e .[dev]
+        python -m pip install --user -e .[dev]
 
     - name: Build documentation and check for warnings
       run: |

.github/workflows/installation-from-remote.yaml

@@ -26,15 +26,12 @@ jobs:
         activate-environment: true
         python-version: '3.10'
 
-    - name: Install ConFlowGen
+    - name: Install ConFlowGen and run tests
       run: |
         conda info
+        conda search conflowgen -c conda-forge --info
         conda create -n test-install-conflowgen -c conda-forge conflowgen pytest
-
-    - name: Run tests
-      run: |
         conda activate test-install-conflowgen
-        conda install pillow=9.0.0
         python -m pytest --pyargs conflowgen
 
   build-conda-on-linux:
@@ -55,17 +52,14 @@ jobs:
         auto-activate-base: true
         activate-environment: ""
 
-    - name: Install ConFlowGen
+    - name: Install ConFlowGen and run tests
       run: |
         conda init bash
         eval "$(conda shell.bash hook)"
         conda info
+        conda search conflowgen -c conda-forge --info
         conda activate base
         conda create -n test-install-conflowgen -c conda-forge conflowgen pytest
-
-    - name: Run tests
-      run: |
-        eval "$(conda shell.bash hook)"
         conda activate test-install-conflowgen
         python -m pytest --pyargs conflowgen
 
@@ -89,11 +83,8 @@ jobs:
       with:
         python-version: '3.10'
 
-    - name: Install ConFlowGen
+    - name: Install ConFlowGen and run tests
       run: |
         python -m pip install conflowgen pytest
         python -m pip show --verbose conflowgen
-
-    - name: Run tests
-      run: |
         python -m pytest --pyargs conflowgen

.github/workflows/linting.yml

@@ -33,9 +33,13 @@ jobs:
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
 
+    - name: Use latest version of pip
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+
     - name: Install Python dependencies including pylint
       run: |
-        pip3 install --user -e .[dev]
+        python -m pip install --user -e .[dev]
 
     - name: Check code quality with pylint
       run: |

.github/workflows/unittests.yaml

@@ -30,9 +30,13 @@ jobs:
       with:
         python-version: "3.10"
 
+    - name: Use latest version of pip
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+
     - name: Install Python dependencies
       run: |
-        pip3 install --user -e .[dev]
+        python -m pip install --user -e .[dev]
 
     - name: Test with pytest
       run: |

setup.py

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
         'peewee >=3',  # ORM mapper
 
         # documentation - decorators used for sphinx but are part of the source code delivered to customers
-        'enum_tools >=0.7',  # used for documenting enums via decorators
+        'enum_tools >=0.7',  # used for documenting enums via decorators - previous versions are not compatible
 
         # for creating the visuals
         'matplotlib',  # default plots such as bar charts, pie charts, etc.
@@ -55,11 +55,11 @@
             'nbconvert',
 
             # build documentation
-            'sphinx',  # build the documentation
+            'sphinx >=6.2',  # build the documentation - restrict version to improve pip version resolution
             'sphinx-rtd-theme',  # adding the nice sphinx theme
-            'sphinx-toolbox',  # dependency of enum_tools, we got this as a present
+            'sphinx-toolbox >=3',  # additional dependency of enum_tools - restrict version to improve pip resolution
             'myst-parser',  # for Contributing.md
-            'sphinxcontrib-bibtex',  # a good help for citing
+            'sphinxcontrib-bibtex >=2.4',  # a good help for citing - restrict version to improve pip resolution
             'nbsphinx',  # use Jupyter Notebooks in the documentation
             'ipython',  # for setting up the pygments_lexer
             'ipykernel',  # for allowing nbsphinx to execute the Jupyter Notebooks
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@
             # publish at PyPI
             'wheel',  # use command 'bdist_wheel'
             'twine',  # check and upload package to PyPI
+
+            # pip resolution issue - https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/12430#issuecomment-1849059000
+            'sphinx-tabs'
         ],
         # a collection of nice-to-haves for working on Jupyter Notebooks - just a favorites list of the authors
         'jupyterlab': [