fix(batch-predictor, pyfunc-server): Pin setuptools max version

[deadlycoconuts]

Description

It seems like from the 20th of September 2024, CICD tasks that require building a python environment started failing with the following error when the ancient mlflow package tries to log artifacts:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils._modified'

This seems to be an error reported recently by other people in the pyinstaller repo, with some users mentioning that distutils is used by setuptools, which just had a new version released recently. Since it doesn't seem like we're importing distutils directly, I've decided to simply pin down the max version of setuptools to <75. Note that the version of setuputils somehow needs to be specified in the variable passed to this argument install_requires here

merlin/python/pyfunc-server/setup.py

Line 49 in a9184ed

install_requires=REQUIRE,

As such, I've added setuptools<75 in both the batch predictor and pyfunc server's requirements.txt file.

Note that this PR technically does not fix the root cause of the problem; it's only a band-aid solution for the moment until we migrate to newer versions of Mlflow very shortly. When that happens I'll revert the changes in this PR.

Modifications

• .github/workflows/release.yml - Updated the versions of setuptools in the build jobs for the python-related components
• python/batch-predictor/requirements.txt - Added setuptools<75 to the requirements of the batch predictor
• python/pyfunc-server/requirements.txt - Added setuptools<75 to the requirements of the pyfunc server

Tests

Checklist

• Added PR label
• Added unit test, integration, and/or e2e tests
• Tested locally
• Updated documentation
• Update Swagger spec if the PR introduce API changes
• Regenerated Golang and Python client if the PR introduces API changes

Release Notes

NONE

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[tiopramayudi]

LGTM! Thanks @deadlycoconuts

[deadlycoconuts]

Thanks for the quick review @tiopramayudi! I'll merge this now!