Fixing an installation issue

[H-Dempsey]

Hi @hkchengrex,

I just tried to use your Google Colab notebook, and I ran into this error after running pip install -e .

Obtaining file:///content/Cutie
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Checking if build backend supports build_editable ... done
  Getting requirements to build editable ... done
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Preparing editable metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> See above for output.
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  Preparing editable metadata (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

I discovered that there is a breaking change for hatchling>=1.19.0.
This pull request changes hatchling to version 1.18.0, rather than making it the most recent version.
This fixed my installation issue.

This tool has been incredibly useful to me, thank you for making this.

Harry

[ofek]

pypa/hatch#1130 (comment)

[hkchengrex]

Hello @H-Dempsey, thank you for the pull request.
From the linked issue, it appears to me that the error is related to force-include -- which we do not use so I am a little confused.

[H-Dempsey]

Hi all,

I am sorry, I should have created a pull request that addressed the issue for the latest version of hatchling, rather than specifying an earlier version.
Thank you for your comment @ofek.

I ended up creating a link to the wrong issue.
Here is a fix to a similar issue that has also worked for me with the latest version of hatchling.

All I had to do was add the following to the pyproject.toml file.
From hatchling>=1.19.0, we need to specify the file selection options.

[tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]
packages = ["cutie"]

The Colab installation works for me now!

Harry

[hkchengrex]

Makes sense. Thanks a lot, Harry.