{data, tools}[foss/2023a] Hydra v1.3.2, optuna v2.10.1

[ItIsI-Orient]

(created using eb --new-pr)

[smoors]

@ItIsI-Orient the list of extensions is quite long, please split Optuna into its own easyconfig?

[smoors]

@ItIsI-Orient is it really needed to use the old 2.10.1 version of optuna here?
optuna is already at version 3.4.0, there is already Optuna-3.1.0-foss-2022a.eb in the EB repo.
the latter easyconfig also contains a lot less extensions.

[ItIsI-Orient]

@smoors hydra-optuna-sweeper has a requirement of optuna<3.0.0 and 2.10.1 is the most recent stable release, that meets the requirement. I haven't tried to bypass the requirements because I am not sure about the functionality/stability of the final build. Should I still try to bypass them?

[ItIsI-Orient]

From what I could find, there were some changes in Optuna v3.x.x that are yet not compatible with Hydra (see facebookresearch/hydra#2162). There is apparently a dev version of hydra-optuna-sweeper that is compatible with higher versions of Optuna (facebookresearch/hydra#2360 (comment)) but I think that we should wait until a stable release is ready.