Updates for Sprint 2025 Semester

[rofrano]

For the Spring 2025 Semester I have dropped support for Poetry and replaced it with Pipenv. The rationale being that Poetry is a tool for building Python packages and managing their dependencies, but none of my labs require that a Python package be built. Poetry was just being using for dependency management and, unfortunately, it gave students a lot of trouble because it didn't play well with the Docker dev container environment, and it seemed to have constant issues with its lock file. When Poetry 2.0 dropped the poetry shell command, that was the last straw for me. It actually made it harder to use and so it had to go.

Pipenv doesn't build packages, but it does a great job of managing environments and it supports cloud environments that expect a requirements.txt file if needed, which is all I really needed. It also seems to play well with Docker and OpenShift Source 2 Image.

I've also removed Thunder Client this semester because it is no longer free so I can't afford to continue using it. I've replace it with a REST API Client that seems to have similar functionality.

Made the following changes:

• Remove Poetry from dev environment and replaced it with Pipenv
• Replaced poetry with pipenv in the GitHub Action
• Updated all packages to latest levels
• Removed Thunder Client and replaced it with REST API Client
• Moved all tool settings from pyproject.toml into the setup.cfg file
• Updated lab instructions to include json format of counter response