[Bug] <Pip installer has its own ideas of where to install Canopy>

[gaoptimize]

Is this a new bug?

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

Current Behavior

I am new to Python and its virtual environments, however, the Pip installer is ignoring my istructions on where to install canopy-env because it claims it is unwritable (it is writable) and defaults to an "AppData\Roaming" folder I want nothing to with (having to do with my OneDrive distrust). My System Path points to "C:\Program Files\Python312", "C:\Program Files\Python312\Lib", and "C:\Program Files\Python312\Scripts" and my user Path doesn't have a folder specified for Python.

Expected Behavior

Install Canopy in the folder I told it to.

Steps To Reproduce

Issue the following command:

PS C:\Users\ [username] \Documents\canopy-env> py -m pip install canopy-sdk

Relevant log output

The following error will occur (note I am an administrator on this computer and "Trusted Installers" have also been given full permissions to the "C:\Users\[username]\Documents" and "C:\Program Files\Python312\" folders:
==============================================
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable

Collecting canopy-sdk
  Using cached canopy_sdk-0.5.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (15 kB)
Collecting fastapi<0.93.0,>=0.92.0 (from canopy-sdk)
  Using cached fastapi-0.92.0-py3-none-any.whl (56 kB)
Collecting gunicorn<22.0.0,>=21.2.0 (from canopy-sdk)
  Using cached gunicorn-21.2.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.1 kB)
Collecting jsonschema<5.0.0,>=4.2.0 (from canopy-sdk)
  Using cached jsonschema-4.20.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (8.1 kB)
Collecting openai<2.0.0,>=1.2.3 (from canopy-sdk)
  Using cached openai-1.6.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (17 kB)
Collecting pandas-stubs<3.0.0.0,>=2.0.3.230814 (from canopy-sdk)
  Using cached pandas_stubs-2.1.4.231227-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (9.6 kB)
Collecting pinecone-client<3.0.0,>=2.2.2 (from canopy-sdk)
  Using cached pinecone_client-2.2.4-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (7.8 kB)
Collecting pinecone-datasets<0.7.0,>=0.6.2 (from canopy-sdk)
  Using cached pinecone_datasets-0.6.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (11 kB)
Collecting pinecone-text<0.8.0,>=0.7.1 (from canopy-sdk)
  Using cached pinecone_text-0.7.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (9.0 kB)
Collecting prompt-toolkit<4.0.0,>=3.0.39 (from canopy-sdk)
  Using cached prompt_toolkit-3.0.43-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.5 kB)
Collecting pydantic<2.0.0,>=1.10.7 (from canopy-sdk)
  Using cached pydantic-1.10.13-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (149 kB)
Collecting python-dotenv<2.0.0,>=1.0.0 (from canopy-sdk)
  Using cached python_dotenv-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl (19 kB)
Collecting sentencepiece<0.2.0,>=0.1.99 (from canopy-sdk)
  Using cached sentencepiece-0.1.99.tar.gz (2.6 MB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [31 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "C:\Users\gaopt\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
          main()
        File "C:\Users\gaopt\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 335, in main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\gaopt\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return hook(config_settings)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\gaopt\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-v_l6vtru\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", 
line 325, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=['wheel'])
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\gaopt\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-v_l6vtru\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", 
line 295, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
        File "C:\Users\gaopt\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-v_l6vtru\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", 
line 480, in run_setup
          super(_BuildMetaLegacyBackend, self).run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
        File "C:\Users\gaopt\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-v_l6vtru\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", 
line 311, in run_setup
          exec(code, locals())
        File "<string>", line 126, in <module>
        File "C:\Program Files\Python312\Lib\subprocess.py", line 408, in check_call
          retcode = call(*popenargs, **kwargs)
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Program Files\Python312\Lib\subprocess.py", line 389, in call
          with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as p:
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Program Files\Python312\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1026, in __init__
          self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
        File "C:\Program Files\Python312\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1538, in _execute_child
          hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

Environment

- **Windows 10**:
- **Python312**:
- **canopy_sdk-0.5.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata**:

Additional Context

No response

[izellevy]

Hi @gaoptimize, it looks like the installation fails because one of the dependencies of canopy (sentencepiece) has no support for Python 3.12 (google/sentencepiece#932). Please note that we do not officially support Python 3.12 as stated here: #201. So as of now I recommend using Python version <=3.11.