Problem
Package metadata advertises Python 3.8 support while the declared Transformers 5 dependency requires Python 3.10 or newer. Several modules also import runtime packages that are currently available only through transitive dependencies.
Impact
Resolvers can select an environment the dependency set cannot support, and dependency graph changes can remove packages mlx-lm imports directly.
Proposed fix
Draft PR #1684 raises the Python floor to 3.10 and declares the directly imported huggingface-hub, regex, and tqdm dependencies.
Problem
Package metadata advertises Python 3.8 support while the declared Transformers 5 dependency requires Python 3.10 or newer. Several modules also import runtime packages that are currently available only through transitive dependencies.
Impact
Resolvers can select an environment the dependency set cannot support, and dependency graph changes can remove packages mlx-lm imports directly.
Proposed fix
Draft PR #1684 raises the Python floor to 3.10 and declares the directly imported
huggingface-hub,regex, andtqdmdependencies.