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RuntimeError: Setuptools version 58.0.0 is too old to use the pyproject.toml build system. Minimum required is 60.0.0.

ID: python/setuptools-version-mismatch

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80%Fix Rate
85%Confidence
0Evidence
2024-06-05First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
3.8 active — — —
3.9 active — — —
3.10 active — — —
3.11 active — — —
3.12 active — — —

Root Cause

The installed setuptools version does not support the build system defined in pyproject.toml.

generic

中文

安装的 setuptools 版本不支持 pyproject.toml 中定义的构建系统。

Workarounds

  1. 95% success Upgrade setuptools to a compatible version 
    pip install --upgrade setuptools>=60.0.0
  2. 90% success Use a virtual environment with a newer Python version 
    python3.11 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate && pip install setuptools

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Downgrading pip 90% fail

    The issue is with setuptools, not pip; downgrading pip does not help.

  2. Removing pyproject.toml 70% fail

    setuptools may fall back to setup.py, but modern packages rely on pyproject.toml.