Merge pull request #177 from edx/nadeem/pin_setuptools

fix: Pin setuptools and wheel versions for Python 3.8 compatibility

Author: nadeemshahzad

requirements/pip.in

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 # Core dependencies for installing other packages
 
 pip
-setuptools
-wheel
+# pinning these versions because newer versions are not available for Python 3.8. 
+# They will be unpinned once we upgrade all our Jenkins jobs to Python 3.9 or a newer version:
+setuptools==75.3.0
+wheel==0.44.0
 

requirements/pip.txt

@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@
 #
 #    make upgrade
 #
-wheel==0.45.1
+wheel==0.44.0
     # via -r requirements/pip.in
 
 # The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
 pip==24.2
     # via
     #   -c requirements/common_constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/pip.in
-setuptools==75.8.2
+setuptools==75.3.0
     # via -r requirements/pip.in