Is there a way of installing only the data catalog part of Kedro?

not at present, but it has been requested in the past. how would this help you?

For our use case, only the DataCatalog part is relevant - nothing about the nodes, pipelines or orchestration. So I'm thinking this might help us avoid additional dependencies. For some reason, some clients also don't like and/or accept Kedro as well 🤔

so would you say it's nothing in specific, just keeping things lean?

For our use case, only the DataCatalog part is relevant - nothing about the nodes, pipelines or orchestration. So I'm thinking this might help us avoid additional dependencies.

For some reason, some clients also don't like and/or accept Kedro as well 🤔

Would having

kedro[catalog]

helps in this case? This is the core dependency of kedro and there is not much heavy dependencies. Maybe

dynaconf

,

omegaconf

(if you don't need config loader), and

toposort

are not required with data catalog.

dependencies = [
    "attrs>=21.3",
    "build>=0.7.0",
    "cachetools>=4.1",
    "click>=4.0",
    "cookiecutter>=2.1.1,<3.0",
    "dynaconf>=3.1.2,<4.0",
    "fsspec>=2021.4",
    "gitpython>=3.0",
    "importlib-metadata>=3.6,<8.0; python_version >= '3.8'",
    "importlib_resources>=1.3,<7.0",  # The `files()` API was introduced in `importlib_resources` 1.3 and Python 3.9.
    "jmespath>=0.9.5",
    "more_itertools>=8.14.0",
    "omegaconf>=2.1.1",
    "parse>=1.19.0",
    "pluggy>=1.0, <1.4.0",
    "pre-commit-hooks",
    "PyYAML>=4.2,<7.0",
    "rich>=12.0,<14.0",
    "rope>=0.21,<2.0",  # subject to LGPLv3 license
    "toml>=0.10.0",
    "toposort>=1.5",  # Needs to be at least 1.5 to be able to raise CircularDependencyError
]