From d69bcd640d1281b021bc0423d81f6ec0c7248715 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Didier Vezinet <dvezinet@cfs.energy>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 06:57:31 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [#973] pinned down setuptools version to 70.0.0 for
 msvccompiler

---
 requirements.txt | 2 +-
 setup.py         | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 018160b88..40f1dd1f8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ scipy
 numpy
 # scikit-sparse    # does not work on windows, and requires "apt/brew install libsuitesparse-dev/suite-sparse" on linux / MacOs
 # scikit-umfpack   # similar issue
-setuptools>=70.0.0
+setuptools==70.0.0
 matplotlib
 contourpy
 requests
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1e0075aa9..9bd8a9b4a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ def get_version_tofu(path=_HERE):
     # requirements files see:
     # https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/requirements.html
     install_requires=[
-        "setuptools>=70.0.0",
+        "setuptools==70.0.0",
         "numpy",
         "scipy",
         # "scikit-sparse",