[urgent] Setuptools update to 65.6.0 makes installing zict fail

[tulbureandreit]

Hi,

TLDR, setuptools just updated to 65.6.0 and it breaks our docker dev flows. It tries installing zict and it fails.

Could you PIN the version on 65.5.1? It`s only true if you have numpy <=1.23.0, as far as I can see.

[jrbourbeau]

Thanks for reporting @tulbureandreit. I'm not able to reproduce with the following steps:

• Create a fresh conda environment with mamba create --name test python=3.9 numpy=1.23.0
  • This pulled in setuptools=65.5.1, which is, I suspect the problematic release and there's a typo in your original comment (though maybe I'm wrong here).
• mamba activate test
• pip install zict

This ran successfully and installed the latest zict=2.2.0 release. I then manually installed setuptools=65.5.0 and was able to until and then reinstall zict successfully.

More information about your setup would be helpful? How are you installing things?

[tulbureandreit]

65.6.0 is the version with a problem, when using numpy <= 1.23.0 for zict =2.2.0 and statsmodels =0.13.0

[jrbourbeau]

It looks like this is a setuptools issue and not a zict issue (xref pypa/setuptools#3693). There's also a fresh 65.6.2 release that should resolve that issue pypa/setuptools#3693 (comment). Could you try that new setuptools release?

[tulbureandreit]

Will try it. I resolved it with SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib poetry install

[jrbourbeau]

Going to close this issue as resolved via the upstream setuptools fix. Though @tulbureandreit feel free to re-open if that's not the case