anhaidgroup / py_stringmatching

A comprehensive and scalable set of string tokenizers and similarity measures in Python
https://sites.google.com/site/anhaidgroup/projects/py_stringmatching
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Incompatible with setuptools >= 50.0.0 #64

Open rgruener opened 3 years ago

rgruener commented 3 years ago

This cannot be installed from pypi if you have the latest version of setuptools installed.

Errors with:

distutils.errors.DistutilsClassError: command class <class 'setuptools.command.egg_info.egg_info'> must subclass Command
odimko commented 3 years ago

hey there! this is an issue with setuptools, not this package. please see below, there's also a temporary fix for that: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2355 https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2353