G-Node / G-Node/nixpy

Cannot install latest version of nixio

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Description

I got the following error when trying to install nixio in a python 3.10 environment:

```bash
pip install nixio
```
```
Collecting nixio
Downloading nixio-1.5.4.tar.gz (28.8 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 28.8/28.8 MB 12.4 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [27 lines of output]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/drodarie/workspace/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 389, in
main()
File "/home/drodarie/workspace/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 373, in main
json_out["return_val"] = hook(**hook_input["kwargs"])
File "/home/drodarie/workspace/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 143, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return hook(config_settings)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-eydu5ae2/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 334, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-eydu5ae2/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 304, in _get_build_requires
self.run_setup()
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-eydu5ae2/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 522, in run_setup
super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-eydu5ae2/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 320, in run_setup
exec(code, locals())
File "", line 65, in
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-eydu5ae2/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 116, in setup
_install_setup_requires(attrs)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-eydu5ae2/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 87, in _install_setup_requires
dist.parse_config_files(ignore_option_errors=True)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-eydu5ae2/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 730, in parse_config_files
self._parse_config_files(filenames=inifiles)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-eydu5ae2/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 599, in _parse_config_files
opt = self._enforce_underscore(opt, section)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-eydu5ae2/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 629, in _enforce_underscore
raise InvalidConfigError(
setuptools.errors.InvalidConfigError: Invalid dash-separated key 'description-file' in 'metadata' (setup.cfg), please use the underscore name 'description_file' instead.
[end of output]

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

× Getting requirements to build wheel 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.
```
```bash
pip list
```

```
Package Version
---------- -------
pip 25.0.1
setuptools 78.0.1
```
The previous version is working though:
```bash
pip install nixio==1.5.3
```

It seems dashes are no more supported by setuptools so the `description-file` option in `setup.cfg` should now be `description_file`

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Research direction

Start by inspecting setup.cfg, especially the metadata option reported in the installation traceback. Confirm the packaging configuration against the current setuptools behavior, then run pip install nixio in a Python 3.10 environment; done means the latest release installs successfully without the InvalidConfigError.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
build-system
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
1/5
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Under an hour
Activity status
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