Outdated dependencies

[ShadmanAmin]

The current pip installation of the package has a dependency pygeos , which tries to call on versioneer.py during installation and uses outdated configparser formats, resulting in an error similar to this during installation:

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [35 lines of output]
      <string>:8: DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html
      /tmp/pip-install-g4hol7c2/pygeos_77124a82c63a4559a3f5460b0c825a97/versioneer.py:421: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s'
        LONG_VERSION_PY['git'] = '''
      Compiling pygeos/_geometry.pyx because it changed.
      Compiling pygeos/_geos.pyx because it changed.
      [1/2] Cythonizing pygeos/_geometry.pyx
      [2/2] Cythonizing pygeos/_geos.pyx
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/home/mdshadman_amin/miniforge3/envs/et_sense/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 389, in <module>
          main()
          ~~~~^^
        File "/home/mdshadman_amin/miniforge3/envs/et_sense/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 373, in main
          json_out["return_val"] = hook(**hook_input["kwargs"])
                                   ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/home/mdshadman_amin/miniforge3/envs/et_sense/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 143, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return hook(config_settings)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-1ntx7q7p/overlay/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 334, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-1ntx7q7p/overlay/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 304, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-1ntx7q7p/overlay/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 320, in run_setup
          exec(code, locals())
          ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "<string>", line 214, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-install-g4hol7c2/pygeos_77124a82c63a4559a3f5460b0c825a97/versioneer.py", line 1480, in get_version
          return get_versions()["version"]
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
        File "/tmp/pip-install-g4hol7c2/pygeos_77124a82c63a4559a3f5460b0c825a97/versioneer.py", line 1412, in get_versions
          cfg = get_config_from_root(root)
        File "/tmp/pip-install-g4hol7c2/pygeos_77124a82c63a4559a3f5460b0c825a97/versioneer.py", line 342, in get_config_from_root
          parser = configparser.SafeConfigParser()
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      AttributeError: module 'configparser' has no attribute 'SafeConfigParser'. Did you mean: 'RawConfigParser'?
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

The solution, as pointed out here , suggests

Pygeos installation still fails, and I try to find the reason in GitHub:
The requirement pygeos fails to install with python 3.12 with the error described here: pygeos/pygeos#463
The maintainer explains that pygeos is no longer maintained and has been merged into the shapley 2.0 dependency of geopandas. Since version 0.14, geopandas uses shapley instead of pygeos: https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/user_guide/pygeos_to_shapely.html
Therefore, the PR drops the unmaintained pygeos and requires geopandas >= 0.14 to ensure the default shapley version is used instead.