[Bug] MetricFlow PIP install Issue Github Action

[adrian-huntress]

Is this a new bug in metricflow?

• I believe this is a new bug in metricflow
• I have searched the existing issues, and I could not find an existing issue for this bug

Current Behavior

We use a Github action to install our requirements.txt file:

dbt-core == 1.9.0
dbt-snowflake == 1.8.3
sqlfluff-templater-dbt == 3.3.1
sqlglot[rs]
elementary-data
dbt-metricflow == 0.8.1

The Github actions run ok when I remove dbt-metricflow from this list of installations. When I keep the error I get is shown below:

After navigating to the setup.cfg file in the Halo dependency, I see this:

https://github.com/manrajgrover/halo/blob/master/setup.cfg

Can someone help us figure out how to fix? Thanks/

Expected Behavior

This issue occurred for the first time on March 24, 2025. Our Github action worked fine before then.

Steps To Reproduce

1. In a Github action, install

dbt-core == 1.9.0
dbt-snowflake == 1.8.3
sqlfluff-templater-dbt == 3.3.1
sqlglot[rs]
elementary-data
dbt-metricflow == 0.8.1

Relevant log output

Collecting halo<0.1.0,>=0.0.31 (from dbt-metricflow==0.8.1->-r requirements.txt (line 6))
  Downloading halo-0.0.31.tar.gz (11 kB)
  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 'error'
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [27 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.9/x64/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 389, in <module>
          main()
        File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.9/x64/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 373, in main
          json_out["return_val"] = hook(**hook_input["kwargs"])
        File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.9/x64/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 143, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return hook(config_settings)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-duhg02t0/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 334, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-duhg02t0/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 304, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-duhg02t0/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 522, in run_setup
          super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-duhg02t0/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 320, in run_setup
          exec(code, locals())
        File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-duhg02t0/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 116, in setup
          _install_setup_requires(attrs)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-duhg02t0/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line [87](https://github.com/huntresslabs/business_intel/actions/runs/14042542950/job/39315905091?pr=917#step:4:88), in _install_setup_requires
          dist.parse_config_files(ignore_option_errors=True)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-duhg02t0/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 730, in parse_config_files
          self._parse_config_files(filenames=inifiles)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-duhg02t0/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 599, in _parse_config_files
          opt = self._enforce_underscore(opt, section)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-duhg02t0/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 629, in _enforce_underscore
          raise InvalidConfigError(
      setuptools.errors.InvalidConfigError: Invalid dash-separated key 'description-file' in 'metadata' (setup.cfg), please use the underscore name 'description_file' instead.
      [end of output]

Environment

- OS: ['ubuntu-latest']
- Python: 3.10
- dbt: 1.8.3
- metricflow: 0.8.1

Which database are you using?

No response

Additional Context

No response

[plypaul]

Created a Github Actions workflow to run

pip install dbt-core==1.9.0 dbt-snowflake==1.8.3 sqlfluff-templater-dbt==3.3.1 sqlglot[rs] elementary-data dbt-metricflow==0.8.1`

using Python 3.10.16, and it seems to be fine. You can check it out at:

https://github.com/dbt-labs/metricflow/actions/runs/14090803718/job/39466721773?pr=1705
https://github.com/dbt-labs/metricflow/pull/1705

What version of Python 3.10 are you running?

[plypaul]

@adrian-huntress If you're up to share your Github Action YAML, that could help as well.

[adrian-huntress]

@adrian-huntress If you're up to share your Github Action YAML, that could help as well.

Here are some of the steps. Python version 3.10.9.

    steps:
      - name: Checkout branch
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Install Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: '3.10.9'
          cache: 'pip'

      - name: Install pip dependencies
        run: pip install -r requirements.txt

requirements.txt file had:

dbt-core == 1.8.7
dbt-snowflake == 1.8.3
sqlfluff-templater-dbt == 3.3.1
sqlglot[rs]
elementary-data

[plypaul]

@adrian-huntress Tried out your config, and it works fine in my test case:

b75f879

Run result:

https://github.com/dbt-labs/metricflow/actions/runs/14202970101/job/39794002902?pr=1705

Not sure what might be up with your workflow (maybe an issue with your cache), but going to close this out. Feel free to reopen if you have a reproducible case.