nats-py[nkeys] won't install on Python 3.12.0

[esjolander]

Observed behavior

nats-py[nkeys] has a dependency on ed25519, which errors on install:

AttributeError: module 'configparser' has no attribute 'SafeConfigParser'. Did you mean: 'RawConfigParser'?

This is because ed25519 uses versioneer, which has a bug. There is an issue against ed25519, but it seems to be a dead project.
The right fix might be to move to pynacl, which does install on Python 3.12.

Expected behavior

It should be possible to pull in nkeys on Python 3.12.

Server and client version

Server and client versions don't matter.
I tested the latest nats-py release: pip install 'nats-py[nkeys]==2.4.0'

Host environment

Ubuntu 22.04, x86-64, pyenv used for Python 3.12.

Steps to reproduce

Install Python 3.12.0, then install nats-py[nkeys]

$ python3 --version
Python 3.12.0
$ pip install 'nats-py[nkeys]==2.4.0'

[itssimon]

This is a showstopper that needs urgent attention IMO

[wallyqs]

yes, there will be a new release of nkeys with the replaced dependency this week

[RangeMachine]

Any update on this?

[strangemonad]

@wallyqs This seems related to this other issue I filed in the nkeys repo nats-io/nkeys.py#10. If I force nkeys to point to the main branch of the git repo instead of pypi then this works (since it installs pynacl)

[itssimon]

Hey @wallyqs, it's been a few weeks since you promised the new release of nkeys. Can the community help in any way to make this happen soon?

[philpennock]

Someone raised this on Slack and I took a look.

So it looks like what has happened here is that we have [edit: in the https://github.com/nats-io/nkeys.py repo] both a master branch and a main branch, and main has switched to pynacl (thereby fixing this issue), but master has not, and master is still the default branch.

We're chasing this now.

[itssimon]

Looks like main is now the default branch in the nkeys.py repo, but to fix this issue we'd also need a release to PyPI.

[wallyqs]

nkeys version with pynacl support has been released today: https://github.com/nats-io/nkeys.py/releases/tag/v0.2.0