Windows tests failing during seqeval installation

[anakin87]

Describe the bug
Recently, many Windows tests are failing during seqeval installation (an example).
seqeval is part of the metrics extra.

Error message

Error message

Collecting seqeval (from farm-haystack==1.22.0rc0)
Downloading seqeval-1.2.2.tar.gz (43 kB)
---------------------------------------- 43.6/43.6 kB 2.1 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing build dependencies: started
Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done'
Getting requirements to build wheel: started
Getting requirements to build wheel: finished with status 'done'
Installing backend dependencies: started
Installing backend dependencies: finished with status 'done'
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): started
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'error'
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
exit code: 1

[61 lines of output]
running dist_info
creating C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-modern-metadata-q15h8b2q\seqeval.egg-info
writing C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-modern-metadata-q15h8b2q\seqeval.egg-info\PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-modern-metadata-q15h8b2q\seqeval.egg-info\dependency_links.txt
writing requirements to C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-modern-metadata-q15h8b2q\seqeval.egg-info\requires.txt
writing top-level names to C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-modern-metadata-q15h8b2q\seqeval.egg-info\top_level.txt
writing manifest file 'C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-modern-metadata-q15h8b2q\seqeval.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
ERROR setuptools_scm.file_finders.git listing git files failed - pretending there aren't any
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\hostedtoolcache\windows\python\3.8.10\x64\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 353, in
main()
File "c:\hostedtoolcache\windows\python\3.8.10\x64\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 335, in main
json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
File "c:\hostedtoolcache\windows\python\3.8.10\x64\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 149, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
return hook(metadata_directory, config_settings)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 396, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
self.run_setup()
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 507, in run_setup
super(BuildMetaLegacyBackend, self).run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 341, in run_setup
exec(code, locals())
File "", line 27, in
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_init.py", line 103, in setup
return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_distutils\core.py", line 185, in setup
return run_commands(dist)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_distutils\core.py", line 201, in run_commands
dist.run_commands()
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_distutils\dist.py", line 969, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 989, in run_command
super().run_command(command)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_distutils\dist.py", line 988, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\dist_info.py", line 107, in run
self.egg_info.run()
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\egg_info.py", line 318, in run
self.find_sources()
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\egg_info.py", line 326, in find_sources
mm.run()
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\egg_info.py", line 548, in run
self.add_defaults()
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\egg_info.py", line 589, in add_defaults
rcfiles = list(walk_revctrl())
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\sdist.py", line 18, in walk_revctrl
for item in ep.load()(dirname):
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\normal\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_scm_file_finders_init.py", line 103, in find_files
res: list[str] = command(path)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\normal\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_scm_file_finders\hg.py", line 50, in hg_find_files
toplevel = _hg_toplevel(path)
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\normal\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_scm_file_finders\hg.py", line 18, in _hg_toplevel
res = _run(
File "C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-2h3whv_b\normal\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_scm_run_cmd.py", line 138, in run
res = subprocess.run(
File "c:\hostedtoolcache\windows\python\3.8.10\x64\lib\subprocess.py", line 495, in run
stdout, stderr = process.communicate(input, timeout=timeout)
File "c:\hostedtoolcache\windows\python\3.8.10\x64\lib\subprocess.py", line 1028, in communicate
stdout, stderr = self._communicate(input, endtime, timeout)
File "c:\hostedtoolcache\windows\python\3.8.10\x64\lib\subprocess.py", line 1401, in _communicate
raise TimeoutExpired(self.args, orig_timeout)
subprocess.TimeoutExpired: Command '['hg', 'root']' timed out after 20 seconds
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Additional context

• seqeval has no recent changes
• seqeval uses setuptools-scm to manage versions.
• Last week a new version of setuptools-scm was released and it probably broke something
• Similar issues:
  • Version file is not generated since version 8 on CI without any error pypa/setuptools_scm#933
  • Issue with 'hg was not found' pypa/setuptools_scm#861 (comment)

To Reproduce
The error occurs randomly while installing farm-haystack[all,dev] on windows-latest.

[masci]

Can we also report an issue in https://github.com/chakki-works/seqeval/issues?

[anakin87]

Let's verify that #5891 is working
and unpin setuptools_scm in the future...

[anakin87]

It seems that this issue persists.

I understood it better and opened an issue on setuptools-scm: pypa/setuptools_scm#943.

[anakin87]

The problem was addressed in pypa/setuptools_scm#946 (increasing the timeout).
But sometimes errors still occur (more rarely).

Possible workaround suggested in pypa/setuptools_scm#943 (comment)

[anakin87]

Seems solved.