Cannot install p5 package with Python 3.12

[e2manuel62]

Describe the bug
The installation of 'p5' package with Python 3.12 is unsuccessful because of unresolved dependencies, concerning in particular the 'metadata' package.

pip install metadata

Collecting metadata
Using cached metadata-0.2.tar.gz (1.5 kB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Installing backend dependencies ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
INFO: pip is looking at multiple versions of metadata to determine which version is compatible with other requirements. This could take a while.
Using cached metadata-0.1.1.tar.gz (1.5 kB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Installing backend dependencies ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Using cached metadata-0.1.tar.gz (1.1 kB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Installing backend dependencies ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
ERROR: Cannot install metadata==0.1, metadata==0.1.1 and metadata==0.2 because these package versions have conflicting dependencies.

The conflict is caused by:
metadata 0.2 depends on hachoir-core==1.3.3
metadata 0.1.1 depends on hachoir-core==1.3.3
metadata 0.1 depends on hachoir-core==1.3.3

To fix this you could try to:

1. loosen the range of package versions you've specified
2. remove package versions to allow pip attempt to solve the dependency conflict

ERROR: ResolutionImpossible: for help visit https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/topics/dependency-resolution/#dealing-with-dependency-conflicts

To Reproduce
pip install p5
pip install metadata

Expected behavior
Successful installation of 'p5' package

Screenshots

System information:

• p5 release (version number or latest commit): 0.8.4
• Python version: 3.12.2
• Operating system: Linux, Debian 12

Additional context
Virtual environment created with pyenv

[github-actions]

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[tushar5526]

Hi, we don't yet support python3.12 - https://github.com/p5py/p5/blob/master/.github/workflows/build-tests.yml. Latest supported version is 3.11

[mhechthz]

Well, further more the package also doesn't properly install with Python 3.11 (windows) but only with Python 3.10. So I manually copied it to Python 3.12 (I have 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12 on my machine), added all needed libraries and ignored the pip warnings on incompatible libraries.

Then the example did work. So the library is more ore less compatible with Python 3.12 and making it installable should be managable.

[tushar5526]

Unfortunately, I don't have a windows machine with me to test this. I would like a PR to support python 3.12

[mhechthz]

Ok, the installation fails because of dependency on old Pillow and vispy that cannot be installed on Python 3.11.

I can separately install Pillow 10.2.0 and vispy 0.14.2 on Python 3.11 but p5 requires Pillow 9.0.1 and vispy 0.10.0 that cannot run with Python 3.11

I changed this in METADATA:

Requires-Dist: Pillow >=9.0.1
Requires-Dist: vispy >=0.10.0

and than installing works with Python 3.11 and at least basically the library seems to works.

For Python 3.12 at least also Requires-Dist: skia-python is necessary (without version, since the new version 124.0b7 is not recognized as >= 85.0 but my Python 3.11 version of skia is 87.5 which is ok) but finally I fail on dependency for PyOpenGL-accelerate which cannot be installed (at my system) with Python 3.12.