update development instructions for MacOS #4591
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Following instructions in
contributing.md
on MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1 on Apple M3 with Apple clang version 15.0.0 installed via Xcode:pip install -r packages/python/plotly/optional-requirements.txt
fails while trying to installpyzmq
if the conda environment has been created with Python 3.12. Fix: useconda create -n plotly-dev python=3.11.8
.contributing.md
leave the environment withpytest==3.5.1
, which fails to run. Fix: installpytest=8.1.1
.pytest packages/python/plotly/plotly/tests
produces failures inpackages/python/plotly/plotly/tests/test_optional
andpackages/python/plotly/plotly/tests/test_orca
. The latter may be caused byorca
not being installed (which orca
produces nothing). However,conda install -c plotly plotly-orca
produces aPackagesNotFound
error.orca
manually (download .zip file etc.)conda install poppler
as well (suggested by error messages that came up while running tests)orca
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