0.42.0rc1 release

[gmarkall]

Testing 0.42 on conda-forge before we tag the release, to avoid issues seen previously where we only discovered problems once the conda-forge package started building (see e.g. #74, #76).

[conda-forge-webservices]

Hi! This is the friendly automated conda-forge-linting service.

I just wanted to let you know that I linted all conda-recipes in your PR (recipe) and found it was in an excellent condition.

[jakirkham]

@conda-forge-admin , please re-render

[jakirkham]

@conda-forge-admin , please re-render

[jakirkham]

@conda-forge-admin , please re-render

[github-actions]

Hi! This is the friendly automated conda-forge-webservice.

I tried to rerender for you, but it looks like there was nothing to do.

This message was generated by GitHub actions workflow run https://github.com/conda-forge/llvmlite-feedstock/actions/runs/7633034422.

[jakirkham]

Have pushed a few changes here:

• Required Python 3.9 as a minimum (was erroring about this with Python 3.8)
• Merged in the Python 3.12 migrator from PR ( Rebuild for python312 #75 )
• Readded templating in URL
• Re-rendered to pick up latest changes (and apply skips, migrators, etc.)

Think that should cut out some false positives and address some false negatives. Hope that is ok

[jakirkham]

Looks like there is an issue with Windows Python 3.12 on CI:

(%BUILD_PREFIX%) %SRC_DIR%>%PREFIX%\python.exe -S setup.py install 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\bld\llvmlite_1706051857045\work\setup.py", line 2, in <module>
    from setuptools import setup, Extension
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\bld\llvmlite_1706051857045\work\setup.py", line 6, in <module>
    from distutils.core import setup, Extension
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

Edit: Pushed a change below that may help

[jakirkham]

@conda-forge-admin , please re-render

[gmarkall]

@jakirkham Many thanks for the fixes - the retargeting to rc and the change back to PyPI + templating look good!

[jakirkham]

Glad to hear it. Thanks for all the work here Graham! 🙏

Let's merge and see how these packages perform