From bb373a5fd61a5d35dd8d3a09c5f167a6fb18df5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Musselman <akm@apache.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 13:56:42 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Boosting required python version for poetry

---
 README.md      | 6 ++++++
 pyproject.toml | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 69eab6a07..1390b7777 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -30,5 +30,11 @@ QuMat is a POC of a high level Python library for intefacing with multiple quant
 
 Check out [basic gates](docs/basic_gates.md) for a quick introduction to the basic gates which are basically all that exist right now (and even those only exist for `qiskit`).
 
+## Getting started
+
+To install dependencies, run the following:
+`$ pip install -U poetry`
+`$ poetry install`
+
 #### Legal
 Please see the `NOTICE.txt` included in this directory for more information.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0f0750f43..e9a3c1a55 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ license = "MIT"
 readme = "README.md"
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = "^3.7"
+python = "^3.8"
 qiskit = "^0.45.1"
 qiskit-aer = "^0.13.2"