remove clip as requirement

Signed-off-by: vladmandic <mandic00@live.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Change Log for SD.Next
 
-## Update for 2026-02-11
+## Update for 2026-02-12
 
 - **Image manipulation**
   - use high-quality [sharpfin](https://github.com/drhead/Sharpfin) accelerated library  
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
   - refactor: captioning part-2, thanks @CalamitousFelicitousness  
   - refactor: remove face restoration, thanks @CalamitousFelicitousness  
   - update `lint` rules, thanks @awsr  
+  - remove requirements: `clip`, `open-clip`  
   - update `requirements`  
 - **Fixes**
   - fix: handle `clip` installer doing unwanted `setuptools` update  

installer.py

@@ -633,11 +633,12 @@ def get_platform():
             release = platform.release()
         return {
             'arch': platform.machine(),
-            'cpu': platform.processor(),
+            'cpu': f'{platform.processor()}',
             'system': platform.system(),
             'release': release,
             'python': platform.python_version(),
             'locale': locale.getlocale(),
+            'setuptools': package_version('setuptools'),
             'docker': os.environ.get('SD_DOCKER', None) is not None,
             # 'host': platform.node(),
             # 'version': platform.version(),
@@ -1114,27 +1115,6 @@ def check_modified_files():
     ts('files', t_start)
 
 
-# install required packages
-def install_packages():
-    t_start = time.time()
-    if args.profile:
-        pr = cProfile.Profile()
-        pr.enable()
-    # log.info('Install: verifying packages')
-    clip_package = os.environ.get('CLIP_PACKAGE', "git+https://github.com/openai/CLIP.git")
-    install(clip_package, 'clip', quiet=True, no_build_isolation=True)
-    install('open-clip-torch', no_deps=True, quiet=True)
-    install(clip_package, 'ftfy', quiet=True, no_build_isolation=True)
-    # tensorflow_package = os.environ.get('TENSORFLOW_PACKAGE', 'tensorflow==2.13.0')
-    # tensorflow_package = os.environ.get('TENSORFLOW_PACKAGE', None)
-    # if tensorflow_package is not None:
-    #    install(tensorflow_package, 'tensorflow-rocm' if 'rocm' in tensorflow_package else 'tensorflow', ignore=True, quiet=True)
-    if args.profile:
-        pr.disable( )
-        print_profile(pr, 'Packages')
-    ts('packages', t_start)
-
-
 # run extension installer
 def run_extension_installer(folder):
     path_installer = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(folder, "install.py"))
@@ -1390,17 +1370,12 @@ def install_optional():
     install('nvidia-ml-py', ignore=True, quiet=True)
     install('pillow-jxl-plugin==1.3.5', ignore=True, quiet=True)
     install('ultralytics==8.3.40', ignore=True, quiet=True)
+    install('open-clip-torch', no_deps=True, quiet=True)
     install('git+https://github.com/tencent-ailab/IP-Adapter.git', 'ip_adapter', ignore=True, quiet=True)
+    # install('git+https://github.com/openai/CLIP.git', 'clip', quiet=True, no_build_isolation=True)
     # install('torchao==0.10.0', ignore=True, quiet=True)
     # install('bitsandbytes==0.47.0', ignore=True, quiet=True)
     # install('optimum-quanto==0.2.7', ignore=True, quiet=True)
-    try:
-        import gguf
-        scripts_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(gguf.__file__), '..', 'scripts')
-        if os.path.exists(scripts_dir):
-            os.rename(scripts_dir, scripts_dir + '_gguf')
-    except Exception:
-        pass
     ts('optional', t_start)
 
 

launch.py

@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ def main():
     if not args.skip_env or args.skip_all:
         installer.set_environment()
     if args.uv:
-        installer.install("uv", "uv")
+        installer.install('uv', 'uv')
     installer.install_gradio()
     installer.check_torch()
     installer.check_onnx()
@@ -272,7 +272,6 @@ def main():
         init_paths()
     else:
         installer.install_requirements()
-        installer.install_packages()
         if installer.check_timestamp():
             installer.log.info('Startup: quick launch')
             init_paths()

modules/caption/openclip.py

@@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ def get_clip_models():
 
 
 def refresh_clip_models():
+    from installer import install
+    install('open-clip-torch', no_deps=True, quiet=True)
     global clip_models # pylint: disable=global-statement
     import open_clip
     models = sorted(open_clip.list_pretrained())

requirements.txt

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ sqlalchemy
 invisible-watermark
 PyWavelets
 pi-heif
+ftfy
 
 # versioned
 fastapi==0.124.4

scripts/nudenet/langdetect.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ def lang_detect(text:str, top:int=1, threshold:float=0.25) -> str:
         from modules import shared
         if model is None:
             from installer import install
-            install("fasttext")
+            install('fasttext')
             import fasttext
             from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
             model_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id, filename="model.bin", cache_dir=shared.opts.hfcache_dir)