Fix incompatibility issue with setuptools >= 78

[romeroyonatan]

Setuptools deprecated dash-separated settings

From NEWS.rst:

Setuptools no longer accepts options containing uppercase or dash characters in setup.cfg. Please ensure to write the options in setup.cfg using the :wiki:lower_snake_case <Snake_case> convention (e.g. Name => name, install-requires => install_requires). This is a follow-up on deprecations introduced in v54.1.0 (see #1608) and v54.1.1 (see #2592).

Issue

      setuptools.errors.InvalidConfigError: Invalid dash-separated key
      'description-file' in 'metadata' (setup.cfg), please use the underscore
      name 'description_file' instead.

Solution

Rename description-file to description_file
Remove description-file because it is not supported by setuptools pypa/setuptools#4913

Closes #383

[LBWright]

We are also experiencing this issue and it is blocking a production release.

[romeroyonatan]

Workarround: Install setuptools < 78 and add --no-build-isolation flag to pip install

pip install 'setuptools<78'
pip install python-quickbooks --no-build-isolation

[lepot311]

BUMP. This got me on a couple different package dependencies today.

[rondanen]

Hello! Please feel free to use this forked repo for your deployments in the meantime: https://github.com/kolleno/python-quickbooks/

For example in poetry.toml :
python-quickbooks = { git = "https://github.com/kolleno/python-quickbooks/", branch = "master" }

[tconbeer]

Thanks so much to @romeroyonatan for pinpointing this issue and providing the work-around.

For anyone using uv, here's a working config for the workaround.

pyproject.toml:

[project]
...
dependencies = [
    # other project deps that can be built independently
]

[project.optional-dependencies]
build-quickbooks = [
    # see https://github.com/ej2/python-quickbooks/issues/383
    "setuptools<78",
]
quickbooks = [
    "python-quickbooks==0.9.11",
]

[tool.uv]
no-build-isolation-package = ["python-quickbooks"]

[build-system]
requires = ["hatchling"]
build-backend = "hatchling.build"

bash or workflow file:

uv sync --extra build-quickbooks
uv sync --extra quickbooks
uv run <your script or file>