1.4.3 has no attribute __version__ about kiwi HOT 2 CLOSED

The maintainer of the slackbuild metioned this:

From kiwisolver 1.4.2 to 1.4.3, these 2 lines were removed from the upstream setup.py, under setup():
package_dir={"": "py"},
packages=["kiwisolver"],

The removal of these 2 lines caused the problem you mentioned.

It is solved at our end by

Therefore, please add the following line to kiwisolver.SlackBuild (just before python3 setup.py install --root $PKG):
sed -i "/name='$SRCNAM',/a \   \ package_dir={'': 'py'},\n    packages=['$SRCNAM']," setup.py

from kiwi.

The central reason for the breakage is that kiwi moved fully to a PEP 517 based installation process meaning that setup.py should not be invoked directly anymore. It was kept to preserve editable installs even thought the are of little interest for kiwi.

Also as listed in pyproject the minimal setuptools version is 61.2.

from kiwi.