[Bug] vantage6 package fails to install with Python 3.12

[lsago]

Describe the bug
I can't seem to install vantage6 Python package when using Python 3.12

To Reproduce

$ docker run -it python:3.12 pip install vantage6==4.4.0
Collecting vantage6==4.4.0
  Downloading vantage6-4.4.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (10 kB)
...
Collecting cryptography==42.0.4 (from vantage6-common==4.4.0->vantage6==4.4.0)
  Downloading cryptography-42.0.4-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl.metadata (5.3 kB)
Collecting pyyaml>=5.3.1 (from copier==9.2.0->vantage6==4.4.0)
  Downloading PyYAML-6.0.tar.gz (124 kB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 125.0/125.0 kB 11.9 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [54 lines of output]
      running egg_info
      writing lib/PyYAML.egg-info/PKG-INFO
      writing dependency_links to lib/PyYAML.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
      writing top-level names to lib/PyYAML.egg-info/top_level.txt
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
          main()
        File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 335, in main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return hook(config_settings)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 325, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=['wheel'])
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 295, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 311, in run_setup
          exec(code, locals())
        File "<string>", line 288, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 104, in setup
          return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 184, in setup
          return run_commands(dist)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 200, in run_commands
          dist.run_commands()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 969, in run_commands
          self.run_command(cmd)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 967, in run_command
          super().run_command(command)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 988, in run_command
          cmd_obj.run()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 321, in run
          self.find_sources()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 329, in find_sources
          mm.run()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 550, in run
          self.add_defaults()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 588, in add_defaults
          sdist.add_defaults(self)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/command/sdist.py", line 102, in add_defaults
          super().add_defaults()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/sdist.py", line 250, in add_defaults
          self._add_defaults_ext()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/sdist.py", line 335, in _add_defaults_ext
          self.filelist.extend(build_ext.get_source_files())
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "<string>", line 204, in get_source_files
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-c05v1vsf/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 107, in __getattr__
          raise AttributeError(attr)
      AttributeError: cython_sources
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

Expected behavior
Successful installation

Details

• OS: Linux
• Version: 4.4.0
• Python: 3.12

[lsago]

Problem

Issue seems to be that pyyaml uses some "deprecated distutils magic" for building that in turn depends on Cython < 3.0.0.

Right now docker run -it python:3.11 pip install vantage6==4.4.0 works, but docker run -it python:3.12 pip install vantage6==4.4.0 does not. I think this is because Vantage6 depends on PyYAML==6.0, and there seems to exist a built wheel for PyYAML-6.0 and Python 3.11 (Linux x86_64). But, there isn't one for PyYAML-6.0 and Python 3.12 (Linux x86_64), see: https://pypi.org/project/PyYAML/6.0/#files.

Solution?

Using pyyaml 6.0.1 should solve the issue I think. It should be able to build, and there is a wheel built already.

So, maybe changing the dependency to PyYAML==6.0.1 in vantage6-common, here:

vantage6-common/requirements.txt
8:PyYAML==6.0

vantage6-common/setup.py
41:        "PyYAML==6.0.1",

requirements.txt
57:PyYAML==6.0

Haven't thought about other platforms... but I expect this would be fine?