Constraint setuptools to 72.1.0 or older in requirements.txt (pytorch…

…#136489)

FIXES: pytorch#136541

Setuptools>=74.0.0 has deprecated support for some functions in distutils, and so the builds run into error such as ```AttributeError: module 'distutils' has no attribute '_msvccompiler'```. Also, the pytorch builds have setuptools pin to 72.1.0 according to these PRs: pytorch/builder#1995 and pytorch/builder@89d9a8c. So, until there is a fix to change the function usage in accordance with latest setuptools, the 72.1.0 version works fine.

Also observed in CI jobs: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/actions/runs/10979326524
Pull Request resolved: pytorch#136489
Approved by: https://github.com/malfet

Co-authored-by: Nikita Shulga <2453524+malfet@users.noreply.github.com>

requirements.txt

@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ numpy
 psutil
 pyyaml
 requests
-setuptools
+# Setuptools>=74.0.0 stopped support for directly using private funcs(_msvccompiler)
+# and consolidated all compiler logic in distutils used in Pytorch build, so older
+# is required until pytorch build not refactored to work for latest setuptools.
+setuptools<=72.1.0
 types-dataclasses
 typing-extensions>=4.8.0
 sympy==1.12.1 ; python_version == "3.8"
@@ -17,7 +20,5 @@ jinja2
 fsspec
 lintrunner
 ninja
-# setuptools was removed from default python install
-setuptools ; python_version >= "3.12"
 packaging
 optree>=0.12.0 ; python_version <= "3.12"