Checklist

• I added a descriptive title
• I searched for other feature requests and couldn't find a duplicate (including also the type-feature tag)
• I confirmed that it's not related to another project (see the above section)

What is the idea?

The last upgrade the vendored tqdm appears to have happened in PR ( #10721 ). This bumped tqdm to version 4.61.1. However since then several more versions of tqdm have been released. The latest being 4.64.0.

Why is this needed

We would like to do a better job of staying up to date with the latest tqdm, so we are going to see what adding it as a regular dependency looks like.

What should happen?

We will create a pull request demonstrating what this looks like and then discuss it with others to see if it is the right way forward.

Additional Context

Note in PR ( tqdm/tqdm#1302 ) included in version 4.63.0, tqdm replaced pkg_resources with importlib.resources. So this would also allow dropping setuptools as a requirement.

Tasks

• Spike to investigate whether it is possible to use a dependency instead of a vendored dependency. (timebox = 1/2 day)
• Create a pull request demonstrating how this can be done:
  • Add tqdm to our setup.py and conda repcipe meta.yml and version pin it to the latest using >=
  • Find all the locations in conda where we used the vendored tqdm and replace it with the dependency version
  • delete /_vendor/tqdm
  • Run all the tests (submit a pull request to do this)
  • See what broke (if anything) and fix it