BUG: Unable to install pandas from nightly on an m2 mac (meson-python not found)

[j-bennet]

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Reproducible Example

python -m pip install --no-deps --pre -i https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple pandas

Issue Description

I get an error:

Looking in indexes: https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple
Collecting pandas
  Downloading https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple/pandas/2.1.0.dev0%2B942.gc65c8ddd73/pandas-2.1.0.dev0%2B942.gc65c8ddd73.tar.gz (13.9 MB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 13.9/13.9 MB 14.1 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Installing build dependencies ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × pip subprocess to install build dependencies did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [3 lines of output]
      Looking in indexes: https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple
      ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement meson-python==0.13.1 (from versions: none)
      ERROR: No matching distribution found for meson-python==0.13.1
      [end of output]

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

× pip subprocess to install build dependencies 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

Expected to install successfully.

Installed Versions

Not installed.

[lithomas1]

What Python version do you have?

pip doesn't seem to be finding any wheels.
(You are downloading and installing from the sdist)

[j-bennet]

This is a conda venv with python 3.11.

[lithomas1]

I see arm64 wheels up on the Anaconda repo.
(e.g. https://anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/pandas/2.1.0.dev0%2B942.gc65c8ddd73/download/pandas-2.1.0.dev0%2B942.gc65c8ddd73-cp311-cp311-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl)

Can you try downloading a wheel file like that one locally and installing that via pip?

[j-bennet]

Yes, the wheel installs with pip just fine. Still won't install from the nightly channel.

[effigies]

Just out of curiosity, what's the protocol for updating wheels? I'm a bit surprised that there are some nightlies with linux+aarch64, others with most builds I can think of. I was just debugging long builds on CI jobs that test against nightlies when I realized we were fetching your sdist and building it.

If you don't mind, what is the reason to push sdists? I'll add --prefer-binary now, but I didn't realize there would be sdists in the nightly wheels repo (there weren't when I wrote the scripts).

Apologies if I've missed some issue where this was described.

[j-bennet]

Just to confirm, with --prefer-binary, it can be installed from the nightly channel.