setup.py still requires 'setuptools_scm<6.0.0'

[band-a-prend]

The file setup.py still has setup_requires=['setuptools_scm<6.0.0']. That results in error on build from source.
Could it be safely updated to actual 7.0.5 version, i.e restricted with 'setuptools_scm<7.1.0' or smth. else?

[joeced]

Can you provide steps to reproduce this? I.e which Python version, which OS, etc.

[band-a-prend]

• Gentoo Linux (source based distributive);
• setuptools_scm-7.0.5 provided by Gentoo repository (this is the only version presented in it's repo);
• Python 3.10.

The packages from PyPi repo usually prefered to be installed via system package manager in Gentoo Linux. Therefore I installed setuptools_scm-7.0.5 from Gentoo repository and then teied to build sphinxcontrib-matlabdomain from tarball provided by PyPi project page, i.e. tried to create package of sphinxcontrib-matlabdomain (to build later Cantera library documentation that depends on sphinxcontrib-matlabdomain).

Actualy I could restore old setuptools_scm localy or use it installed ia pip for this purpose. This time I edited the setup.py from sphinxcontrib-matlabdomain last version tarball to allow to be built against setuptoools_scm-7.0.5 and it was built successfully but I'm not sure that it fully compatible. Initially setup.py has restriction of setuptools_scm<6.0.0.

[joeced]

Thanks for the extra information.

It seems to be Python 3.6 that was the issue, in this branch I removed the setuptools_scm restriction, at the expense of Python 3.6 compatibility.

Can you try to clone and install directly from the repo?

[band-a-prend]

Sorry for so long delay. I completely forgot to check changes :(
I check the build process from update-setuptools-scm branch and it's successfully configure and compile for python 3.10 + setuptools_scm-7.0.5 + sphinx-5.1.1.

P.S.
There were some tests failures/errors but don't worry: I found similar known problem with export of sphinx.builders.epub3 in other gentoo package during testing via package manager.