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Figure out dependency best practices

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
grpc, python

Research direction

Review the SDK's dependency declarations and its stated Python 3.11 compatibility alongside the planned GoogleContainerTools distroless runtime. Compare the current major-version-only policy with current Python library packaging guidance, then document or implement an agreed dependency and supported-runtime policy and verify that it remains compatible with the intended container.

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Description

enhancement
What problem are you facing?

This SDK is a library. It has some dependencies (e.g. gRPC, Click, etc) but I assume we don't want to pin them to specific versions - instead the app would do that. Right now I have everything "pinned" to major versions only. We're also declaring that we only work with Python 3.11, since it's what the https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless container we'll use to run Python functions uses.

How could this Function help solve your problem?

My Python packaging experience is almost a decade out-of-date so I'm not sure what the best practice is here. I could use a review from folks with more recent Python library packaging experience.

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Python
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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