Can't install on Apple Silicon

[petebankhead]

Hi there,

I know from the README that only Linux and WSL2 are supported, but after ksugar/samapi#1 I was hopeful this might work on macOS as well :)

However I'm failing at the pip install stage with

INFO: pip is looking at multiple versions of cellsparse to determine which version is compatible with other requirements. This could take a while.
ERROR: Ignored the following versions that require a different python version: 3.0.0 Requires-Python >=3.7, <=3.11
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow==2.12.0 (from cellsparse) (from versions: 2.13.0rc0, 2.13.0rc1)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow==2.12.0

I think the issue is that I need to install tensorflow-mac==2.12.0 - which I've done, but I still can't figure out any way to get the installation to proceed without trying to get tensorflow and failing with the same error.

Do you know of any way around this?

Thanks!

[ksugar]

Hi @petebankhead , thank you for reporting this issue.

This error comes from the dependency from cellsparse-core repository.

I will make tensorflow optional. In this case, we can install tensorflow independently.

[ksugar]

I will make tensorflow optional. In this case, we can install tensorflow independently.

I updated it. Please try the following installation steps.
https://github.com/ksugar/cellsparse-api#mac-osx

[petebankhead]

Great, thanks! I could install it now, I'll try the extension later.