Requirements tracking

[genedan]

I have been using a PyCharm plugin called requirements that has some handy features such as warning the developer if any of the packages are out of date. However, it seems to be unmaintained and is now incompatible with more recent versions of PyCharm.

JetBrains has indicated that they have taken the functionality of this plugin in-house but two tickets indicate that this work has not been completed:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-71358/Requirements-Plugin-needs-update-not-working-in-many-months
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-70287/requirements.txt-Show-warning-for-outdated-packages

Until then, I've been using a fork that seems to work, although the situation is tenuous as it relies on the generosity of the maintainer:

https://github.com/Fares-Abubaker/requirements

So we should keep an eye on this and switch back to using JetBrains, assuming they take care of the issue.

I ran into some challenges installing the plugin from source, but I found this thread which helped me build the plugin with gradle (Java 17 required):

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61657293/how-do-i-install-the-kotest-plugin-for-intellij-from-a-github-repository