Be able to specify which version of setuptools has to be used

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Feature Request

I just ran into this bug: https://github.com/tikitu/jsmin/pull/34 Setuptools >=58 removed functionality jsmin relies on. The result is that jsmin can’t be installed and our CI/CD pipeline fails.

My solution was to run the following before a build in out CI: poetry run pip install --upgrade setuptools==57.5.0 To counter this, it would be great if the setuptools version can be specified in the pyproject.toml.

[StevenMMortimer]

Big thanks @rvanlaar! Your suggestion works well in a Docker container. I’ve implemented by adding the poetry pip install of setuptools before running poetry install

RUN pip install --no-cache-dir 'poetry==1.1.5'
RUN poetry run pip install 'setuptools==57.5.0'
RUN poetry install --no-root

[finswimmer]

Hello,

for poetry <1.2 we have marked setuptools as “unsafe” to remove or change because poetry relies on it. We removed the limitation in the current preview release. You can now add setuptools to your pyproject.toml like any other dependency.

fin swimmer