From e9ecb378ddbfa21b0a0d04d69fa971dfab9da662 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Didier Vezinet <dvezinet@cfs.energy>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 08:41:26 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [#951] Pinned setuptools to >=40.8.0 and <65.* in setp.py,
 requirements.txt and pyproject.toml

---
 pyproject.toml   | 2 +-
 requirements.txt | 2 +-
 setup.py         | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1b3abd013..7efdefef8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
-        "setuptools>=40.8.0",
+        "setuptools>=40.8.0, <65.*",
 	"wheel",
 	"Cython>=0.26",
 	"numpy",
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8e71ee444..91da8cf49 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ scipy
 numpy
 # scikit-sparse    # does not work on windows, and requires "apt/brew install libsuitesparse-dev/suite-sparse" on linux / MacOs
 # scikit-umfpack   # similar issue
-setuptools!=65.*,!=74.*
+setuptools>=40.8.0, <65.*
 matplotlib
 contourpy
 requests
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ad473b495..f502da4e4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ def get_version_tofu(path=_HERE):
     # requirements files see:
     # https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/requirements.html
     install_requires=[
-        "setuptools!=65.*,!=74.*",
+        "setuptools>=40.8.0, <65.*",
         "numpy",
         "scipy",
         # "scikit-sparse",