On 2021-09-24 07:19:03 -0600 (-0600), Alex Schultz wrote: [...]
JFYI as I was looking into some other requirements issues yesterday, I hit this error with anyjson[0] 0.3.3 as well. It's used in a handful of projects[1] and there has not been a release since 2012[2] so this might be a problem in xena. I haven't checked the projects respective gates, but just want to highlight we'll probably have additional fallout from the setuptools change. [...]
Yes, we've also run into similar problems with pydot2 and funcparserlib, and I'm sure there's plenty more of what is effectively abandonware lingering in various projects' requirements lists. The long and short of it is that people with newer versions of SetupTools are going to be unable to install those, full stop. The maintainers of some of them may be spurred to action and release a new version, but in so doing may also drop support for older interpreters we still test with on some stable branches (this was the case with funcparserlib). On the other hand, controlling what version of SetupTools others have and use isn't always possible, unlike runtime dependencies, so that really should be a solution of last resort. Making exceptions to stable branch policy in unusual circumstances such as this seems like a reasonable and more effective compromise. -- Jeremy Stanley