Fix dependencies

[xylar]

Summary

Some dependencies were updated recently in #25 and #38 in ways I do not think we want in the end. This PR aims to fix those dependencies

Objectives:

• Put back constraints that I do not think should have been dropped because they were put on the tools for a reason
• Get tools from conda-forge whenever possible

Select one: This pull request is...

• a bug fix: increment the patch version
• a small improvement: increment the minor version
• a new feature: increment the minor version
• an incompatible (non-backwards compatible) API change: increment the major version

Please fill out either the "Small Change" or "Big Change" section (the latter includes the numbered subsections), and delete the other.

Small Change

• To merge, I will use "Squash and merge". That is, this change should be a single commit.
• Logic: I have visually inspected the entire pull request myself.
• Pre-commit checks: All the pre-commits checks have passed.

[xylar]

If, in the future, the latest version of mypy or another pinned linting or CI tool is not available on conda-forge, use the latest version available on conda-forge both here and in the pre-commit config file, rather than pulling the tool from PyPI. This was @tomvothecoder's suggestion the last time this happened as well.

[forsyth2]

Does the pyproject.toml also need the following?

-    "matplotlib",
+    "matplotlib-base >=3.8.2",

I also noticed in that file:

qa = [
    "black==24.10.1",
    "flake8==7.1.1",
    "flake8-isort==6.1.0",
    "isort==5.13.2",
    "mypy==1.11.2",
    "pre-commit >=3.0.0",
    "types-PyYAML >=6.0.0",
]

Should these match the versions in .pre-commit-config.yaml?

[xylar]

matplotlib-base is a simplified package only available on conda-forge. It is the preferred dependency if you don't need the features of the full maptplotlib (which, in practice, we never do). So we want matplotlib >=3.8.2 in the pyproject.toml. But PyPI doesn't know about maptplotlib-base so we won't include that there.

Yes, I believe the qa section of the pyproject.toml should match both the pre-commit config and the dev.yml. Please push fixes to both of those to this PR if you like. I will add you as a collaborator.

[xylar]

@forsyth2, actually, I'll just take care of it. Just as sec...

[xylar]

@forsyth2, please double check these.

[forsyth2]

Yes, these appear to match the current dev.yml and .pre-commit-config.yml.

[forsyth2]

I'll just take care of it.

Thanks!!

[xylar]

@forsyth2, I think this is ready for you to merge if you're ready.

[forsyth2]

GitHub Actions are passing and visual inspection looks good, merging. Thanks again @xylar!