[Runtime] check amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin's version

[erick-xanadu]

Context: To help users understand which version of amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin is compatible with catalyst

Description of the Change:

• raise an error if an incompatible version of amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin is found.
• Also adds dependency to semantic_version module in order check non-trivial version compatibilities.

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Possible Drawbacks:

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[dime10]

Looking at this, do we even have a dependency on the amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin ?

[erick-xanadu]

We never import amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin. But we obtain a class BraketQubitDevice(QubitDevice): from pennylane itself. Which is defined in amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin.

[erick-xanadu]

I could also make this change in the runtime.py file. Somewhere around these lines.

    if dname == "braket.local.qubit":  # pragma: no cover
        device_kwargs["device_type"] = dname
        device_kwargs["backend"] = (
            # pylint: disable=protected-access
            device._device._delegate.DEVICE_ID
        )
    elif dname == "braket.aws.qubit":  # pragma: no cover
        device_kwargs["device_type"] = dname
        device_kwargs["device_arn"] = device._device._arn  # pylint: disable=protected-access
        if device._s3_folder:  # pylint: disable=protected-access
            device_kwargs["s3_destination_folder"] = str(
                device._s3_folder  # pylint: disable=protected-access
            )

[dime10]

Suggested change

	pip install numpy amazon-braket-sdk amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin>=1.27.1
	pip install numpy amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin

[erick-xanadu]

Closed. It was decided we are going to try to open a PR for SProd and Sum to the amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin github repo.

[erick-xanadu]

@dime10 we had a brief discussion offline, you said you still want this code in master?

[dime10]

Yes I think the version check is still a good improvement to the user's experience :)

Is there a way to add a test that it is working as intended?