setuptools_scm 6.0+?

[limburgher]

Fedora rawhide just got setuptools_scm 6.0.1. What plans do you have to test and update this pin?

[ionelmc]

There isn't any pin. We only have upper/lower constraints to avoid problematic situations (buggy old version, 6.0 failing to run on 2.7, or the tooling failing to see that 6.0 is unrunnable on 2.7).

[limburgher]

Sorry, I meant constraint. :) But 2.x is EOL; I recognize that there's still 2.x code in the wild, but is there a way to allow >6.0 on 3.x?

[ionelmc]

Perhaps environment markers could be used. I guess I could try to figure something out but why do you need 6.0 anyway? You want to publish the new LOP release in Fedora I guess? Adding a local patch for the setuptools-scm dep not really doable in Fedora?

[ionelmc]

Ermm... maybe I wasn't clear: <6.0 is there just for 2.7, on py3 you can use it without problem.

[limburgher]

I actually just shipped the latest LOP, and yesterday our setuptools-scm got updated to 6.0.1, and it broke the LOP build.
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/work/tasks/4361/64504361/build.log

[ionelmc]

Mkay, so local patch unacceptable? Not sure what to make out of that traceback.

[limburgher]

A local patch is fine, I just want to avoid it if I can. Looking at setup.cfg, I don't see where there's logic to relax the constraint for 3.x,

[ionelmc]

You'd need to patch pyproject.toml and setup.py.

[limburgher]

Ok, I'll do that for now.

[zerothi]

I am also experiencing this problem when doing pip install on my py3 box. I have setuptools_scm 6.3.2, and so cannot install this package, at all... :(

Which work-around is there for pip-installers?

[ionelmc]

Ok fine, I'll cut a new release and remove the upper constraint.

[ionelmc]

Actually, would it work if I only remove it from pyproject.toml?

[zerothi]

What about just doing !=6.0?

[ionelmc]

The problem was that 6.0 and following dropped python 2.7 support and that broke some installs with python 2.7 broken tools. It was a workaround, we can remove it and let womever is stuck on 2.7 use the older lazy-proxy release.