Revert environment.yml, update README, change Python version >=3.6

README.md

@@ -40,14 +40,17 @@ To get started:
     - [/similarity](similarity#notebooks)
 
 
-The utilities in [`utils_cv`](utils_cv) is `pip`-installable from the
-main directory by `pip install .` or directly from the master branch
-on GitHub (**NOTE** To build the wheel, `g++` is required):
+As an alternative to the steps above, and if one wants to install only
+the 'utils_cv' library (without creating a new conda environment),
+this can be done by running
 
 ```bash
 pip install git+https://github.com/microsoft/ComputerVision.git@master#egg=utils_cv
 ```
 
+or by downloading the repo and then running `pip install .` in the
+root directory.
+
 
 ## Introduction
 

environment.yml

@@ -13,16 +13,25 @@ name: cv
 channels:
 - defaults
 - conda-forge
+- pytorch
+- fastai
 dependencies:
 - python==3.6.8
+- pytorch==1.0.0
+- torchvision  
+- fastai==1.0.48
+- ipykernel>=4.6.1
 - jupyter>=1.0.0
 - pytest>=3.6.4
+- bqplot
+- scikit-learn>=0.19.1
 - pip>=19.0.3
 - pip:
-  # NOTE: Make sure of syncing dependencies in `setup.py`
-  - .
+  - azureml-sdk[notebooks,contrib]>=1.0.30
   - black>=18.6b4
+  - papermill>=0.15.0
   - ipywebrtc
+  - nvidia-ml-py3
   - pre-commit>=1.14.4
   - lxml>=4.3.2
   - nteract-scrapbook

setup.py

@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ from os import path
 
 
 UTILS_CV = "utils_cv"  # Utility folder name
-# UTILS_CV_PATH = path.join(path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__)), UTILS_CV)
-# README = path.join(UTILS_CV_PATH, "README.md")
 README = path.join(UTILS_CV, "README.md")
 exec(open(path.join(UTILS_CV, "__init__.py")).read())
 
@@ -37,8 +35,11 @@ setup(
         "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
     ],
     include_package_data=True,
-    # Not fully test the dependency coverage, please make sure to sync
-    # with environment.yml
+    # Make utils_cv pip-installable without environment.yml.
+    # * But keep environment.yml unchanged util final decision to
+    #   incorporate utils_cv into environment.yml.
+    # * Make sure to sync with environment.yml if any dependencies or
+    #   versions changed.
     install_requires=[
         "azureml-sdk[notebooks,contrib]>=1.0.30",  # requires ipykernel, papermill, jupyter-core, jupyter-client
         "bqplot",
@@ -59,5 +60,5 @@ setup(
         ]
     ),
     packages=[UTILS_CV],
-    python_requires="==3.6.8",
+    python_requires=">=3.6",
 )