error during pip install (`geos_c.h` not found)

[haykh]

Hi, I'm trying to install the package in a venv and I am getting the following error:

      lib/cartopy/trace.cpp:767:10: fatal error: geos_c.h: No such file or directory
        767 | #include "geos_c.h"
            |          ^~~~~~~~~~

which obviously comes from one of your requirements, the cartopy. I was wondering if this module is essential (I wasn't going to plot any maps), as its requirement list is quite long?

The xmovie tool seems quite generic for the xarray, so would it make sense to drop this requirement (perhaps at a price of some of the functionality)?