Loosen install-time version restrictions

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
matlab, python
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start by reviewing the install-time MATLAB version detection and the dependency declaration in pyproject.toml. Determine whether matlabengine is backward compatible with older MATLAB versions and what version constraints are technically required; no tests or other entry points are mentioned in the issue.

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Description

The current reliance on finding the MATLAB version at installation time makes it impossible to specify matlabengine as a dependency in pyproject.toml -- as a developer, I have no idea what version of MATLAB the user will be using.

I understand that a particular MATLAB version may require specific Python versions, but from looking at the updates to this repo on new MATLAB releases, there doesn't appear to be any significant change to matlabengine. Is there a technical reason why matlabengine isn't actually backwards compatible with older versions of MATLAB?

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