Installing directly from GitHub fails on Python 3.12

[James Bourbeau]

Describe the bug

While updating Dask's nightly CI to run on Python 3.12, I noticed that we're no longer able to install sparse directly from GitHub anymore

To Reproduce

mamba create -n test-sparse python=3.12
mamba activate test-sparse
pip install git+https://github.com/pydata/sparse

which fails with

Collecting git+https://github.com/pydata/sparse
  Cloning https://github.com/pydata/sparse to /private/var/folders/h0/_w6tz8jd3b9bk6w7d_xpg9t40000gn/T/pip-req-build-eluysxav
  Running command git clone --filter=blob:none --quiet https://github.com/pydata/sparse /private/var/folders/h0/_w6tz8jd3b9bk6w7d_xpg9t40000gn/T/pip-req-build-eluysxav
  Resolved https://github.com/pydata/sparse to commit 7c0c962a87f1884702497d3b546d023b74087928
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [20 lines of output]
      /private/var/folders/h0/_w6tz8jd3b9bk6w7d_xpg9t40000gn/T/pip-req-build-eluysxav/versioneer.py:432: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s'
        ] = '''
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "/private/var/folders/h0/_w6tz8jd3b9bk6w7d_xpg9t40000gn/T/pip-req-build-eluysxav/setup.py", line 43, in <module>
          version=versioneer.get_version(),
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/private/var/folders/h0/_w6tz8jd3b9bk6w7d_xpg9t40000gn/T/pip-req-build-eluysxav/versioneer.py", line 1524, in get_version
          return get_versions()["version"]
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/private/var/folders/h0/_w6tz8jd3b9bk6w7d_xpg9t40000gn/T/pip-req-build-eluysxav/versioneer.py", line 1451, in get_versions
          cfg = get_config_from_root(root)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/private/var/folders/h0/_w6tz8jd3b9bk6w7d_xpg9t40000gn/T/pip-req-build-eluysxav/versioneer.py", line 346, in get_config_from_root
          parser = configparser.SafeConfigParser()
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      AttributeError: module 'configparser' has no attribute 'SafeConfigParser'. Did you mean: 'RawConfigParser'?
      ['numpy>=1.17', 'scipy>=0.19', 'numba>=0.49']
      ['numpy>=1.17', 'scipy>=0.19', 'numba>=0.49']
      [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.

It looks like versioneer may need to be updated to be compatible with Python 3.12

[James Bourbeau]

Additionally, it looks like we'll need to wait for numba to support Python 3.12 as well

[Hameer Abbasi]

It looks like versioneer may need to be updated to be compatible with Python 3.12

Might just make the jump to pyproject.toml.

Additionally, it looks like we'll need to wait for numba to support Python 3.12 as well

Ah, yes, the eternal conflict between fluctuating bytecode and things that depend on it like Numba.

[James Bourbeau]

Might just make the jump to pyproject.toml.

Yeah, agreed. Though it may be slightly more involved as I don't see a pyproject.toml file here

[Hameer Abbasi]

Yeah, agreed. Though it may be slightly more involved as I don't see a pyproject.toml file here

pyproject.toml is in master if you'd like to test it out. I also replaced versioneer with setuptools_scm.

[Hameer Abbasi]

Numba 0.59 supports Python 2.12, so I'm closing.