conda CI great 2024 christmas failure

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We had a bit of perfect storm of CI failures for conda, probably related to the fact that all the dependencies are now available with Python 3.13 .

The issues are:

• pip check now fails with sip 6.7.12 requires setuptools, which is not installed.
• On Windows, installing all dependencies takes ~1 hour and then fails.

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are now available with Python 3.13 .

Actually Python 3.10 is still installed.

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Actually the before/after difference is quite minimal:

--- <unnamed>
+++ <unnamed>
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
 cached-property           1.5.2                hd8ed1ab_1    conda-forge
 cached_property           1.5.2              pyha770c72_1    conda-forge
 cairo                     1.18.0               h3faef2a_0    conda-forge
-certifi                   2024.8.30          pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
 cfitsio                   4.4.0                hbdc6101_1    conda-forge
 cli11                     2.4.2                h5888daf_0    conda-forge
 cmake                     3.31.2               h74e3db0_1    conda-forge
@@ -321,8 +320,8 @@
 lz4-c                     1.9.4                hcb278e6_0    conda-forge
 lzo                       2.10              hd590300_1001    conda-forge
 make                      4.4.1                hb9d3cd8_2    conda-forge
-matplotlib                3.9.4           py310hff52083_0    conda-forge
-matplotlib-base           3.9.4           py310h68603db_0    conda-forge
+matplotlib                3.10.0          py310hff52083_0    conda-forge
+matplotlib-base           3.10.0          py310h68603db_0    conda-forge
 matplotlib-inline         0.1.7              pyhd8ed1ab_1    conda-forge
 mesa-khr-devel-cos7-x86_64 18.3.4            ha675448_1106    conda-forge
 mesa-libgl-cos7-x86_64    18.3.4            ha675448_1106    conda-forge
@@ -366,7 +365,7 @@
 pexpect                   4.9.0              pyhd8ed1ab_1    conda-forge
 pickleshare               0.7.5           pyhd8ed1ab_1004    conda-forge
 pillow                    10.3.0          py310hf73ecf8_0    conda-forge
-pip                       24.3.1             pyh8b19718_0    conda-forge
+pip                       24.3.1             pyh145f28c_1    conda-forge
 pixman                    0.44.2               h29eaf8c_0    conda-forge
 pkg-config                0.29.2            h4bc722e_1009    conda-forge
 ply                       3.11               pyhd8ed1ab_3    conda-forge
@@ -410,7 +409,6 @@
 s2n                       1.4.13               he19d79f_0    conda-forge
 sdl                       1.2.68               h293081c_0    conda-forge
 sdl2                      2.30.7               h3ed165c_0    conda-forge
-setuptools                75.6.0             pyhff2d567_1    conda-forge
 simbody                   3.7                  h64f3f5a_3    conda-forge
 sip                       6.7.12          py310hc6cd4ac_0    conda-forge
 six                       1.17.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
@@ -448,7 +446,6 @@
 vtk-io-ffmpeg             9.3.0           qt_py310h1234567_200    conda-forge
 wayland                   1.23.1               h3e06ad9_0    conda-forge
 wcwidth                   0.2.13             pyhd8ed1ab_1    conda-forge
-wheel                     0.45.1             pyhd8ed1ab_1    conda-forge
 wslink                    2.2.1              pyhd8ed1ab_1    conda-forge
 x264                      1!164.3095           h166bdaf_2    conda-forge
 x265                      3.5                  h924138e_3    conda-forge

The main suspect is the pip change.

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The main suspect is the pip change.

This is tracked in conda-forge/pip-feedstock#132 . For all the rest, the problem is that:

conda create -n ace asio assimp boost cli11 eigen freetype gazebo gz-sim8 glew glfw glm graphviz gsl "ipopt>=3.13.0" irrlicht libjpeg-turbo libmatio libode libxml2 nlohmann_json qhull "pcl>=1.11.1" vtk "libopencv>=4.10.0" opencv portaudio qt-main sdl sdl2 sqlite tinyxml spdlog lua soxr cmake compilers make ninja pkg-config tomlplusplus libzlib "ffmpeg" onnxruntime-cpp "qt6-main>=6.7.2" "python>=3.11"

can't be solved.

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The problem is that boost is a deprecated package that is not available since 1.86 (see https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/boost). We need to switch to libboost-devel.

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The problem is that boost is a deprecated package that is not available since 1.86 (see https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/boost). We need to switch to libboost-devel.

Even by solving this, for some reason an old sip builds get installed, resulting in this error:

sip 6.7.12 requires setuptools, which is not installed.

that anyhow should be solved once conda-forge/pip-feedstock#132 is solved.