ci: update GitHub workflows and fix development dependencies for Pyth…

…on 3.12 (#75)

Improves CI workflows and ensures reliable test environments.  

- GitHub Actions:
  - Add support for testing with Python 3.12.
  - Remove testing for Python 3.7 on macOS (EOL).
  - Remove `allow-prereleases` to focus on stable releases.
  - Simplify dependencies by only installing pytest (and pkg_resources)

- setup.py and tox.ini:
  - Fix development dependencies for unit tests.
  - Add setuptools explicitly for pkg_resources compatibility (Python 3.12+).

.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
     - name: Checkout repository
-      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
     - name: Initialize CodeQL

.github/workflows/python-package.yml

@@ -12,22 +12,26 @@ on:
 jobs:
   pytest:
     strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         platform: [ ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest ]
-        python-version: [ "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11" ]
+        python-version: [ "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12" ]
+        exclude:
+          - platform: macos-latest
+            python-version: "3.7"
 
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          python -m pip install 'PyTest'
+          python -m pip install pytest setuptools
           python -m pip install -e .
       - name: Test with pytest
         run: |

setup.py

@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ def function_three():
             'sphinx < 2',
             # jinja2 3.0.3 was the last version to have contextfunction that sphinx 1.x needs
             'jinja2~=3.0.3',
+            'setuptools; python_version>="3.12"',
         ]
     },
     python_requires='>=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*',

tox.ini

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ deps =
     wrapt1.13: wrapt ~= 1.13.0
     wrapt1.14: wrapt ~= 1.14.0
     coverage
+    setuptools; python_version>="3.12"
 
 [testenv:docs]
 basepython = python