remove numpy from this project

[zkamvar]

I am having a bear of a time trying to get things installed on my Mac and one thing that's causing me a headache right now is numpy, which was introduced in ebc22d6.... I don't think we actually use numpy anywhere. Could we remove it?

[micokoch]

I added this requirement when trying to make a few changes to HubDocs (in #74, where I did too many things for a single PR). I'm sure I copied those requirements from somewhere, but I can't remember where or what the justification was - other than to make it all work. I don't know if removing it would make anything break (maybe on the back end of the Sphinx Read the Docs template?), but I'm okay with testing and seeing if anything bad happens.

[bsweger]

This is why I'm a big fan of generating requirements files with pip-compile or uv pip compile. Looks like numpy isn't being directly imported in our code, but it could be a transitive dependency.

In this case, requirements.txt doesn't give us the answer (one reason why I'm a fan of generating requirements files with pip-compile or uv pip compile, which generate an annotated requirements file).

Shouldn't be too hard to investigate, though. If numpy is truly not needed, we would be nice to get it out!

[bsweger]

@zkamvar Quick question for prioritizing--is having numpy in this repo a blocker for you?

[zkamvar]

It is no longer a blocker.

[bsweger]

Thanks--will still keep this on the list, because I'm guessing that we really don't need numpy here!