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+{% set name = "vpt-core" %}
+{% set version = "1.2.0" %}
+
+package:
+  name: {{ name|lower }}
+  version: {{ version }}
+
+source:
+  url: https://pypi.org/packages/source/{{ name[0] }}/{{ name }}/vpt_core-{{ version }}.tar.gz
+  sha256: 841b60ef5acfe15c6fb10444d08780129225aadf92f89ed9893c93e44ffe3f60
+
+build:
+  noarch: python
+  script: {{ PYTHON }} -m pip install . -vv --no-deps --no-build-isolation
+  number: 0
+  run_exports: {{ pin_subpackage("vpt-core", max_pin="x.x.x") }}
+
+requirements:
+  host:
+    - python
+    - poetry-core
+    - pip
+  run:
+    - python
+    - boto3 >=1.17
+    - fsspec >=2021.10.0
+    - geopandas >=0.13.2
+    - gcsfs >=2021.10.0
+    - numpy >=1.24.3,<2.0.0
+    - pandas >=2.0.3,<3.0.0
+    - psutil
+    - pyarrow >=8.0.0,<14.0.0
+    - python-dotenv >=0.20.0
+    - rasterio >=1.3.0,<1.3.6
+    - s3fs >=2021.10.0
+    - scikit-image >=0.19.3
+    - shapely >=2.0.0
+    - tenacity >=8.2.2
+    - tqdm
+    - pillow >=10.1
+    - opencv-python-headless
+
+test:
+  imports:
+    - vpt_core
+  commands:
+    - pip check
+  requires:
+    - pip
+
+about:
+  home: https://github.com/Vizgen/vpt-core
+  summary: Core components for the Vizgen Post-processing Tool
+  license: Apache-2.0
+  license_file: LICENSE.md
+
+extra:
+  recipe-maintainers:
+    - nilchia