Installing 0.9.0 wheel on python 3.6 does not install dataclasses, causes import failure

Describe the bug Installing pvlib 0.9.0 using the wheel currently on PyPI does not install dataclasses, causing pvlib to fail to import on python 3.6. I think this is because the wheel builder workflow uses python 3.8, so it ignores the dataclasses dependency when building the wheel (which is supposed to be universal across all our supported python versions):

https://github.com/pvlib/pvlib-python/blob/518cc35567baa15ae203bb8537452927ae10c7a7/.github/workflows/publish.yml#L24

https://github.com/pvlib/pvlib-python/blob/518cc35567baa15ae203bb8537452927ae10c7a7/setup.py#L49-L50

Opening the wheel (it’s just a zipfile) and viewing the pvlib-0.9.0.dist-info/METADATA file, there is no mention of dataclasses. Note that installing 0.9.0 from source (pip install pvlib --no-binary pvlib) works as intended because it is running setup.py locally in python 3.6. Our CI never has this kind of python version mismatch between what was used to build the wheel and what was used to run the tests, so it didn’t catch this.

To Reproduce

$ conda create -n py36test python=3.6
$ conda activate py36test
$ pip install pvlib==0.9.0
$ python -c "import pvlib"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\KANDERSO\Software\Anaconda3\envs\py36test\lib\site-packages\pvlib\__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from pvlib import (  # noqa: F401
  File "C:\Users\KANDERSO\Software\Anaconda3\envs\py36test\lib\site-packages\pvlib\ivtools\__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from pvlib.ivtools import sde, sdm, utils  # noqa: F401
  File "C:\Users\KANDERSO\Software\Anaconda3\envs\py36test\lib\site-packages\pvlib\ivtools\sdm.py", line 16, in <module>
    from pvlib.pvsystem import calcparams_pvsyst, singlediode, v_from_i
  File "C:\Users\KANDERSO\Software\Anaconda3\envs\py36test\lib\site-packages\pvlib\pvsystem.py", line 14, in <module>
    from dataclasses import dataclass
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dataclasses'

Additional context Noticed in https://github.com/NREL/rdtools/pull/290

Possible solutions:

• Switch the deploy workflow to use python 3.6, which will end up requiring dataclasses for all python versions
• Upgrade dataclasses to be required for all versions in setup.py
• Build separate wheels for each python version, maybe with cibuildwheel?
• Remove the wheel file so that pip always installs from source?

[kanderso-nrel]

Ok, the pvlib and conda-forge channels have new builds (build 1) that work for me on both 3.6 and 3.7, so I think everything is fixed. If anyone discovers that’s not the case, please let me know.

[wholmgren]

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