Installation issues with latest version (0.7.0)

[jwtay1]

I know that the latest version is very new but I just wanted to let you know that the latest version of the plugin (0.7.0) does not install or work correctly due to the SAM3 dependencies, at least on Windows 11.

Note that it seems that there are two main issues:

1. The triton package is needed. This was resolved by running python -m pip install triton-windows and was maybe forgotten in the current README.
2. The SAM3 model is also needed and is currently gated by Meta on Hugging Face. The README states that this is optional, but the server does not run (child processes keep dying) without it.

It would be nice if the server could continue to run if it detects that SAM3 was not present.

[ksugar]

Hi @jwtay1, thank you for testing the new version. Your feedback is spot on, and I will update the implementation and documentation.

[ksugar]

@jwtay1 I’ve pushed an updated version to the dev branch — could you kindly test it and let me know if the issue is resolved?
The README has also been updated.

https://github.com/ksugar/samapi/tree/dev

python -m pip install git+https://github.com/ksugar/samapi.git@dev

Thanks in advance!

[jwtay1]

@ksugar Thanks for getting to this so quickly. It looks like this fixes the issue - the API server and the QuPath extension run fine without the SAM3 model.

Thanks!