From a0db0e92ef4a0c2ad4d0a998503cc28b7684525e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: krzywon <krzywon@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:17:41 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Alphabetize requirements.txt with separate sections for
 OS-specific and version-pinned packages

---
 build_tools/requirements.txt | 67 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/build_tools/requirements.txt b/build_tools/requirements.txt
index 6be5e6b02c..371b502948 100644
--- a/build_tools/requirements.txt
+++ b/build_tools/requirements.txt
@@ -1,41 +1,44 @@
-numpy 
-scipy
-docutils 
-pytest
-pytest_qt
-pytest-mock
-unittest-xml-reporting
-tinycc 
-h5py
-sphinx
-pyparsing 
-html5lib 
-pybind11 
+# Alphabetized list of OS and version agnostic dependencies
 appdirs
-six 
-numba 
-mako 
-ipython 
-qtconsole 
-xhtml2pdf 
-pylint
-periodictable 
-uncertainties 
-matplotlib
-lxml
-pytools 
+bumps
 cffi
+docutils
 dominate
+h5py
+html2text
 html5lib
 importlib-resources
-bumps
-html2text
+ipython
 jsonschema
-pywin32; platform_system == "Windows"
-PySide6==6.4.3
-twisted
-zope
-superqt
+lxml
+mako
+matplotlib
+numba
+numpy
+periodictable
+pybind11
+pylint
 pyopengl
 pyopengl_accelerate
+pyparsing
+pytest
+pytest_qt
+pytest-mock
+pytools
+qtconsole
+scipy
+six
 sphinx
+superqt
+tinycc
+twisted
+uncertainties
+unittest-xml-reporting
+xhtml2pdf
+zope
+
+# Alphabetized list of OS-specific packages
+pywin32; platform_system == "Windows"
+
+# Alphabetized list of version-pinned packages
+PySide6==6.4.3  # Later versions do not mesh well with pyinstaller < 6.0