setup.py itself depends on python-dateutil

[Commod0re]

pip install whoisit in a fresh virtualenv fails:

% pip install whoisit
Collecting whoisit
  Using cached whoisit-2.5.1.tar.gz (31 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [10 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "/private/var/folders/6y/xrb0tm811kl8v3jt6_7cz0q80000gn/T/pip-install-3p_w5gii/whoisit_1978a29a75af4988a86dd13a17a220a1/setup.py", line 4, in <module>
          from whoisit.version import version
        File "/private/var/folders/6y/xrb0tm811kl8v3jt6_7cz0q80000gn/T/pip-install-3p_w5gii/whoisit_1978a29a75af4988a86dd13a17a220a1/whoisit/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
          from .parser import parse
        File "/private/var/folders/6y/xrb0tm811kl8v3jt6_7cz0q80000gn/T/pip-install-3p_w5gii/whoisit_1978a29a75af4988a86dd13a17a220a1/whoisit/parser.py", line 3, in <module>
          from dateutil.parser import parse as dateutil_parse
      ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dateutil'
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

because setup.py imports code that uses python-dateutil it actually should be either specified in setup_requires in addition to install_requires (see https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/references/keywords.html ) or a pyproject.toml as defined in PEP-518 (https://peps.python.org/pep-0518/ )

[meeb]

So it does. I'll fix this in the next release. I had dateutil globally installed for some reason so missed this. Thanks for reporting it and the details.

[meeb]

This is fixed in the v2.5.2 release pushed up a few minutes ago.