I was asked to share it here as well. I don't need the dependency removed, but version constraints should definitely be eased. It's not ideal that a library is locking specific versions and using a rather old version. Any help will be appreciated! I'm kind of stuck now

Can we make this optional now - now that we have pydantic support

Personally I'm not using this functionality, so if you make optional it would be great for me. That said, you should probably upgrade the version and not pin it.

that is true, cc @high-accountant-32689

I'm actively looking into this. We have an issue with supporting Enums with newer versions of

dataclasses-json

. Once I have an update I'll post here.

@high-accountant-32689 thanks! in the meantime, if possible to release a version with that dependency optional, it would be great. I'm aware that it is technically making the library not backwards compatible... so a little problematic.