Necessary vs. recommended dependencies

[lostanlen]

Quoting from the review checklist of JOSS:

Installation instructions: Is there a clearly-stated list of dependencies? Ideally these should be handled with an automated package management solution.

I have searched the word using in your package and i have found:

• using Wavelets
• using LinearAlgebra
• using Statistics
• using Plots
• using Distributions
• using AverageShiftedHistograms
• using Parameters
• using Documenter
• using Test
• using ImageQualityIndexes
• using Random

It would be good to clarify which of these packages are necessary/recommended for (1) running the software (2) running the tests (3) compiling the documentation.

[zengfung]

Hi,

where should such clarifications be documented? We currently have 3 separate Project.toml files listing the dependencies

• 1 in the ./ directory for running the software
• 1 in the test/ directory for running tests
• 1 in the docs/ directory for documentation

Is there anything we need to do further?

[lostanlen]

My bad. I wasn't aware of this Project.toml mechanism. (i only knew about REQUIRE)
noted!