Replace Autodeps with pre-commit?

[richardsheridan]

https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools#version-control-integration

I don't know much about pre-commit but if we could get it to run on only a subset of commits it would replace the half-baked tool we have. Maybe using the "manual" stage? (stages: [manual])

[jakkdl]

It's in the plans to move away from the current dependency management, see #2790, which is partially blocked by #2798, which is waiting until we've done a release with the new typehints.

[A5rocks]

Just popping by to mention that #2790 probably will end up not making a change to how we have requirements files (at least if I have my way and there isn't a great argument for it -- I really don't like having to install a 3rd party tool globally to install requirements ... or have to make 2 venvs, one for the tool and one for the project + deps).

Given that, I think making this change makes sense and shouldn't be blocked by anything! But I still don't know if we can have platform-independent lockfiles using pip-tools, which is my biggest gripe with it.

[jakkdl]

(responded to A5rocks in #2790)

[A5rocks]

I don't think using a manual stage would make sense, because either way we'd have to commit and push the changes which are the main issues with the current workflow.

[CoolCat467]

Manual stage would work well for re-generating the autogenerated files, I might make a pull request implementing that later.