[Fix available] Local Installation fails due to unknown encoding of readme.md

[simon376]

Describe the bug

• When trying to install anomalib locally, as described in the readme.md, using pip install -e ., the command fails.
• This happens, because in setup.py, the content of the readme is read into the LONG_DESCRIPTION, without specifying the encoding used.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. run pip install -e . from the root directory
2. See error

Expected behavior

• the library and all required components are installed properly

Error Message

(.venv) C:\Users\USERNAME\dev\anomalib-fork>pip install -e .
Obtaining file:///C:/Users/USERNAME/dev/anomalib-fork
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Checking if build backend supports build_editable ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [20 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "C:\Users\USERNAME\dev\anomalib-fork\.venv\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pep517\in_process\_in_process.py", line 363, in <module>
          main()
        File "C:\Users\USERNAME\dev\anomalib-fork\.venv\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pep517\in_process\_in_process.py", line 345, in main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
        File "C:\Users\USERNAME\dev\anomalib-fork\.venv\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pep517\in_process\_in_process.py", line 130, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return hook(config_settings)
        File "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-nxo18pxf\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 177, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return self._get_build_requires(
        File "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-nxo18pxf\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 159, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
        File "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-nxo18pxf\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 174, in run_setup
          exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'), locals())
        **File "setup.py", line 91, in <module>
          LONG_DESCRIPTION = (Path(__file__).parent / "README.md").read_text()**
        File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_3.9.3568.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\pathlib.py", line 1267, in read_text
          return f.read()
        File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_3.9.3568.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
          return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
      UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 4247: character maps to <undefined>
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel 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.

Fix
replace this:

anomalib/setup.py

Line 91 in c0c4cbd

LONG_DESCRIPTION = (Path(__file__).parent / "README.md").read_text()

with

LONG_DESCRIPTION = (Path(__file__).parent / "README.md").read_text(encoding='utf8')

Hardware and Software Configuration

• OS: Windows
• NVIDIA Driver Version 516.01
• CUDA Version V11.7.64