Dependency python-magic-bin seems to be unmaintained

[satya-waylit]

I ran into an error trying to resolve kolo using uv. I'm using Python 3.12. Seems python-magic-bin hasn't seen an update since 2017. The package python-magic seems to be maintained. Any chance to switch to a maintained dependency?

× No solution found when resolving dependencies:
0.719   ╰─▶ Because python-magic-bin==0.4.14 has no wheels with a matching platform
0.719       tag and you require python-magic-bin==0.4.14, we can conclude that your
0.719       requirements are unsatisfiable.

[wilhelmklopp]

👋 Hey @satya-waylit

Thanks for the report, I've looked into it a bit and looks like we install python-magic-bin on Windows to make sure mocket works. Just to confirm, are you on Windows? And could you run uv tree and paste the result in this thread?

Ultimately, it looks like when this PR gets merged, we'll be able to remove our dependency on python-magic-bin: ahupp/python-magic#294

But until then, I'm not sure if there is an easy resolution. Are you able to run with WSL as opposed to with windows directly?

[satya-waylit]

@wilhelmklopp Indeed, using Windows. I was using WSL for the longest, but WSL seems to getting very unstable these days. May be that's why I ran into this issue. Will wait for the upstream fix.

[satya-waylit]

I checked mocket's code and it seems magic should be an optional dependency. mindflayer/python-mocket#254

[ddelange]

I see that kolo specifies python-magic-bin ; platform_system == 'Windows'.

My PR on python-magic builds win32 and win_amd64 wheels, just like python-magic-bin does.

The error in the issue description implies that the user is on platform_system Windows, but no wheels available for his distribution according to uv.

Maybe ARM64 Windows? In that case, my PR won't solve OP's issue.

[satya-waylit]

amd64 in my case

[ddelange]

then you should be covered 🤔

can you post the output here of the following direct reference install of python-magic-bin?

pip install --force-reinstall https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/07/c2/094e3d62b906d952537196603a23aec4bcd7c6126bf80eb14e6f9f4be3a2/python_magic_bin-0.4.14-py2.py3-none-win_amd64.whl

[ddelange]

and also the output of

python -c 'from packaging.markers import default_environment; print(default_environment())'

[satya-waylit]

@wilhelmklopp The mocket author has switch to puremagic from python-magic in the newest version. Hopefully that'll solve the problem.

[wilhelmklopp]

python-magic-bin dropped as a dependency in kolo as of v2.33.9 – nice work on getting this in front of the right people @satya-waylit