robustats fails to install

[senser-amirp]

pip install gives the error
ImportError: cannot import name 'Log' from 'distutils.log' (/tmp/pip-build-env-hd80agp5/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/log.py)

reproduce this by:

docker run -it python bash
pip install robustats

Full log in reproduce_pip_install_error.txt
This is probably related to pypa/setuptools#3693

[FilippoBovo]

Hey. The error that you get it related to the setuptools library, not the robustats library.

[ion-elgreco]

@FilippoBovo I am getting the same issue :

numpy.distutils is deprecated since NumPy 1.23.0, as a result
of the deprecation of distutils itself. It will be removed for
Python >= 3.12. For older Python versions it will remain present.
It is recommended to use setuptools < 60.0 for those Python versions.
For more details, see:
https://numpy.org/devdocs/reference/distutils_status_migration.html

What are the required actions or necessary changes to make this package work with NumPy > v1.23?

[tmct]

We're going to have to remove this library from our code owing to this incompatibility - is there any chance it might yet get fixed please?

[FilippoBovo]

Hey, @tmct. I'm unable to keep this library updated. If you need it for your projects, I suggest you to fork the library and maintain your fork.

[tmct]

That's no problem at all - we've replaced our usage of the library with our own weighted median that looks a lot like these. Thanks anyway.