Dependencies

[t-bltg]

Consider the following dependency tree:

julia> using PkgDependency
julia> PkgDependency.tree("FreeTypeAbstraction")

dependency tree

 FreeTypeAbstraction v0.10.0                                        
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━                                       
              │                                                     
              ├── FreeType v4.0.0                                   
              │   ├── CEnum v0.4.2                                  
              │   └── FreeType2_jll v2.10.4+0                       
              │       ├── JLLWrappers v1.4.1                        
              │       │   └── Preferences v1.3.0                    
              │       │       └── TOML v1.0.0                       
              │       ├── Pkg v1.8.0                                
              │       │   ├── Downloads v1.6.0                      
              │       │   │   ├── LibCURL v0.6.3                    
              │       │   │   │   ├── MozillaCACerts_jll v2022.2.1  
              │       │   │   │   └── LibCURL_jll v7.84.0+0         
              │       │   │   │       ├── LibSSH2_jll v1.10.2+0     
              │       │   │   │       │   └── MbedTLS_jll v2.28.0+0 
              │       │   │   │       ├── MbedTLS_jll v2.28.0+0 (*) 
              │       │   │   │       ├── nghttp2_jll v1.48.0+0     
              │       │   │   │       └── Zlib_jll v1.2.12+3        
              │       │   │   ├── NetworkOptions v1.2.0             
              │       │   │   └── ArgTools v1.1.1                   
              │       │   ├── Tar v1.10.0                           
              │       │   │   ├── SHA v0.7.0                        
              │       │   │   └── ArgTools v1.1.1 (*)               
              │       │   ├── SHA v0.7.0 (*)                        
              │       │   ├── p7zip_jll v17.4.0+0                   
              │       │   └── TOML v1.0.0 (*)                       
              │       ├── Bzip2_jll v1.0.8+0                        
              │       │   ├── JLLWrappers v1.4.1 (*)                
              │       │   └── Pkg v1.8.0 (*)                        
              │       └── Zlib_jll v1.2.12+3 (*)                    
              ├── ColorVectorSpace v0.9.9                           
              │   ├── ColorTypes v0.11.4                            
              │   │   └── FixedPointNumbers v0.8.4                  
              │   ├── TensorCore v0.1.1                             
              │   ├── SpecialFunctions v2.1.7                       
              │   │   ├── IrrationalConstants v0.1.1                
              │   │   ├── ChainRulesCore v1.15.5                    
              │   │   │   └── Compat v3.46.0                        
              │   │   │       ├── Pkg v1.8.0 (*)                    
              │   │   │       └── SHA v0.7.0 (*)                    
              │   │   ├── LogExpFunctions v0.3.18                   
              │   │   │   ├── IrrationalConstants v0.1.1 (*)        
              │   │   │   ├── ChainRulesCore v1.15.5 (*)            
              │   │   │   ├── ChangesOfVariables v0.1.4             
              │   │   │   │   └── ChainRulesCore v1.15.5 (*)        
              │   │   │   ├── DocStringExtensions v0.8.6            
              │   │   │   └── InverseFunctions v0.1.7               
              │   │   ├── OpenLibm_jll v0.8.1+0                     
              │   │   └── OpenSpecFun_jll v0.5.5+0                  
              │   │       ├── JLLWrappers v1.4.1 (*)                
              │   │       ├── Pkg v1.8.0 (*)                        
              │   │       └── CompilerSupportLibraries_jll v0.5.2+0 
              │   └── FixedPointNumbers v0.8.4 (*)                  
              ├── Colors v0.12.8                                    
              │   ├── ColorTypes v0.11.4 (*)                        
              │   ├── Reexport v1.2.2                               
              │   └── FixedPointNumbers v0.8.4 (*)                  
              └── GeometryBasics v0.4.3                             
                  ├── IterTools v1.4.0                              
                  ├── StaticArrays v1.5.6                           
                  │   └── StaticArraysCore v1.3.0                   
                  ├── Tables v1.7.0                                 
                  │   ├── DataAPI v1.10.0                           
                  │   ├── OrderedCollections v1.4.1                 
                  │   ├── IteratorInterfaceExtensions v1.0.0        
                  │   ├── DataValueInterfaces v1.0.0                
                  │   └── TableTraits v1.0.1                        
                  │       └── IteratorInterfaceExtensions v1.0.0 (*)
                  ├── EarCut_jll v2.2.3+0                           
                  │   ├── JLLWrappers v1.4.1 (*)                    
                  │   └── Pkg v1.8.0 (*)                            
                  ├── StructArrays v0.6.12                          
                  │   ├── DataAPI v1.10.0 (*)                       
                  │   ├── StaticArraysCore v1.3.0 (*)               
                  │   ├── Tables v1.7.0 (*)                         
                  │   └── Adapt v3.4.0                              
                  └── GeoInterface v1.0.1                           
                      └── Extents v0.1.1                            

From the previous tree, a consequent dependency is GeometryBasics (with induced artifacts e.g. EarCut_jll, Tables, StructArrays, ...), which seems an overkill for the usage of a few Vec, Vec2f, Rect2f in FreeTypeAbstraction.

Would you consider a PR in order to remove the GeometryBasics dependency here, or as an alternative splitting GeometryBasics into a low dependencies GeometryBasicsCore (or GeometryBasicsTypes) and the full GeometryBasics ?

Xref JuliaPlots/UnicodePlots.jl#291.

[jkrumbiegel]

Sounds good to me, core packages seem to be all the rage lately.. I wonder if ColorVectorSpaces is necessary as well, it might be used for some convenience with render functions but that cannot be a lot of code.