Should duecredit be a required or optional dependency?

[tsalo]

Summary

#249 sets duecredit up as an optional dependency, but the devs should decide whether they want it as an optional or required dependency.

duecredit is a package for associating citations with code. The developer add decorators to functions with the appropriate citations for those functions. Then, when the users runs the code, they can use a duecredit command to collect all citations for all functions run, and get an annotated bibliography that they can incorporate into their manuscript.

Additional detail

This stems from #249 (review).

Next Steps

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[tsalo]

I vote optional, FWIW. That's how we do it in tedana and NiMARE. The drawback is that making it an optional dependency means we need to include the due.py stub file in the repository to prevent import errors.

[smoia]

@tsalo , could you explain a bit more what is duecredit and why we should be using it? I'm not sure all of the physiopy developers know what it is!

[eurunuela]

Optional sounds good to me!

[tsalo]

@smoia I updated the issue summary. Thanks for catching that.

[smoia]

I guess optional it is!
I'll close this since it's the current setup.