Pip 22.0.4 pip install -e . fails

[Oddant1]

Bug Description When attempting to run pip install -e . on q2-diversity with pip 22.0.4, I get an error.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Use pip 22.0.4 (it's in our latest dev environment)
2. Run pip install -e . in q2-diversity
3. See error

Expected behavior Should actually install

Screenshots

Computation Environment

• OS: Linux Mint 20.2
• QIIME 2 Release: Latest dev as of time of writing

Comments

1. This is known to pip, and it looks like they have fixed whatever the problem is for their next release
2. If you need a workaround right now, downgrading to 21.3.1 via the command python -m pip install pip==21.3.1 worked
3. Might affect other repos as well. I was able to pip install -e . the framework just fine, didn't try any other repos
4. This should be closed once pip release their fix

References

1. https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/11025
2. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71410741/pip-uninstall-gdal-gives-attributeerror-pathmetadata-object-has-no-attribute

[thermokarst]

Thanks! I ran into this the other day while developing q2cli - hopefully the pip patch makes it out soon.