[Python][Dev] Source install yields unexpected keyword argument: 'version_file'

[WillAyd]

Describe the bug, including details regarding any error messages, version, and platform.

Seems to have started with #41041

$ python setup.py build_ext --inplace -j14
/home/willayd/clones/arrow/python/setup.py:34: DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html
  import pkg_resources
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/willayd/clones/arrow/python/setup.py", line 372, in <module>
    setup(
  File "/home/willayd/mambaforge/envs/arrow-dev/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 103, in setup
    return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/willayd/mambaforge/envs/arrow-dev/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 147, in setup
    _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/willayd/mambaforge/envs/arrow-dev/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 303, in __init__
    _Distribution.__init__(self, dist_attrs)
  File "/home/willayd/mambaforge/envs/arrow-dev/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 283, in __init__
    self.finalize_options()
  File "/home/willayd/mambaforge/envs/arrow-dev/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 654, in finalize_options
    ep(self)
  File "/home/willayd/mambaforge/envs/arrow-dev/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools_scm/integration.py", line 123, in infer_version
    config = Configuration.from_file(dist_name=dist_name)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/willayd/mambaforge/envs/arrow-dev/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools_scm/config.py", line 216, in from_file
    return cls(relative_to=name, **args)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: Configuration.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'version_file'

Component(s)

Python

[assignUser]

Thanks for the report!
Directly calling setup.py is deprecated and apparently no longer compatible with the recent changes, could you try python -m pip install .? (we probably need to update some docs too)

[WillAyd]

Ah simple enough - makes sense and yes that did work

[jorisvandenbossche]

And to be clear, you can continue to use calling built_ext inplace directly (I also still do that, until we move away from setuptools, that is fine), you just need to ran the pip install -e . once before that works again (as you initially also did once, I assume).

[jorisvandenbossche]

It's also quite likely that you see that error just because of having a too old setuptools_scm in your environment (that's the error I got in another env where I tried to build inplace with --no-build-isolation)