Fix versioneer for python >= 3.12

[mscheltienne]

Closes #

configparser.SafeConfigParser has been deprecated in python 3.11 and removed in 3.12; which is now failing the conda-forge release workflows and any installs on Python 3.12.

Proposed Changes

• By-pass the issue by using ConfigParser, new alias of SafeConfigParser if the latter is absent from configparser namespace.

Change Type

• bugfix (+0.0.1)
• minor (+0.1.0)
• major (+1.0.0)
• refactoring (no version update)
• test (no version update)
• infrastructure (no version update)
• documentation (no version update)
• other

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[mscheltienne]

That PR should yield a new release to restore installs on Python 3.12+ and on conda-forge.
Also, I would recommend to use an external tool to manage version, some good options are:

• setuptools_scm: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm
• hatchling with hatch-vcs (as an alternative build backend to setuptools)

[mscheltienne]

One more point now that I see the CIs, how about bumping between 3.9 and 3.12 the CIs? 3.7 already reached its end of life: https://devguide.python.org/versions/

And most projects maintain the 4 last minor version of Python, see e.g. numpy which dropped support for Python 3.8 since version 1.25.

Also, I think numpy is a (very) major dependency of this project, thus maybe you should add a workflow run against the nightly build of numpy 2.0. It's breaking stuff left and right, better to catch it early!

python -m pip install --progress-bar off --upgrade --pre --only-binary :all: -i https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple --timeout=180 numpy

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[smoia]

Thank you for finding that!

It's a bit hard to maintain for all python versions, and while most packages maintain for newer versions, most users might use an older version. I will give a go to update and check during the holidays.

[mscheltienne]

most users might use an older version

Up to them to update or to stick to old versions ;)