Support building dependencies, or find out which Python versions we support

[nhoening]

When trying the make-supported installation, a user reported an error (see below, they say it works neither with Python 3.11 nor 3.9).

However, for me on Python3.10, make install works well (in a virtual env).

We might have an issue with requirements here, and maybe different Python versions. This requires a little research.

make install
make install-pip-tools
pip3 install -q "pip-tools>=6.2"
make freeze-deps
make install-pip-tools
pip3 install -q "pip-tools>=6.2"
pip-compile -o requirements/app.txt requirements/app.in

error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully
│ exit code: 1
 ─> [29 lines of output]
Package hdf5 was not found in the pkg-config se
Perhaps you should add the directory containing
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'hdf5' found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <
File "/private/var/folders/xq/wbc5yvh91bz8dc7
_populate_hdf5_info(dirstosearch, inc_dirs,
File "/private/var/folders/xq/wbc5yvh91bz8dc7

raise ValueError('did not find HDF5 headers
ValueError: did not find HDF5 headers
reading from setup.cfg...


HDF5_DIR environment variable not set, chec
checking /Users/edgar/include ...
hdf5 headers not found in /Users/edgar/include
checking /usr/local/include ...
hdf5 headers not found in /usr/local/include
checking /sw/include ...
hdf5 headers not found in /sw/include
checking /opt/include ...
hdf5 headers not found in /opt/include
checking /opt/local/include ...

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Branch issue-24-Support_building_dependencies created!

[Ahmad-Wahid]

I have tried the plugin on both python 3.9 and 3.11. I wasn't able to replicate this issue for 3.9 but for 3.11 first I had to install HDF5 and libnetcdf-dev, then I got an error that is like this

× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [8 lines of output]
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
      File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-resolve-x4klz9f1/llvmlite_d213ef6a83a84de783c170c67eaeb38f/setup.py", line 55, in <module>
        _guard_py_ver()
      File "/tmp/pip-resolve-x4klz9f1/llvmlite_d213ef6a83a84de783c170c67eaeb38f/setup.py", line 52, in _guard_py_ver
        raise RuntimeError(msg.format(cur_py, min_py, max_py))
    RuntimeError: Cannot install on Python version 3.11.4; only versions >=3.7,<3.11 are supported.
    [end of output]

[Ahmad-Wahid]

I think we should limit ourself to python >=3.8, <3.11 for now.