remove types setuptools and release 1.31

[cqc-melf]

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[cqc-melf]

Tries to solve #1513

[CalMacCQ]

GIven that the removal of this package from pypi renders pytket uninstallable I think we should announce this more prominently in the docs. What do you think?

[CalMacCQ]

I can do this in a separate PR

[cqc-melf]

Yes we should do that. Feel free to make a second PR for that.

[sjdilkes]

Looks like we might be in luck here - have you also tried installing in a fresh local environment where we can be sure there's no lingering installation of types-pkg_resources? I assume the CI is set up to do this, but a sanity check would be helful.

[jake-arkinstall]

A couple of thoughts of potential relevance:

• The version and release strings in pytket/docs/conf.py (I read the version from there when providing nix with the version information) still reference "1.30" - if this PR is for bumping the version should those be changed as part of it?
• poetry.lock still mentions pkg-resources

[cqc-melf]

Looks like we might be in luck here - have you also tried installing in a fresh local environment where we can be sure there's no lingering installation of types-pkg_resources? I assume the CI is set up to do this, but a sanity check would be helful.

Yes I did that:

• install pytket
• run python tests
• run mypy checks
• make sure types-pkg-resources is still not installed

[cqc-melf]

The doc test run currently in an older version and I don't see and easy way to solve that at the moment. I would suggest removing the doc checks for now and try to add them back in later.

The main problem is:
Docs need poetry
Poetry does not like setup.py
(I think the solution should be building a wheel first and loading that device specific into poetry is a to complicated change for a release PR, and not fully sure that would work)

[cqc-melf]

@sjdilkes @CalMacCQ should be ready for review now. If there are any questions or anything we should discuss, happy to have a call.

[CalMacCQ]

Looks good to me.

The TKET webiste will pick up the v1.31 from pypi once the release is put out and will build the docs.

After the 1.31 release is out we can re-enable the test of the docs build