Installation Error for transformers Package (🔥 maturin failed)

[SauceChord]

System Info

Source of environment data

• python --version
• Get-ComputerInfo | Select-Object WindowsVersion, WindowsBuildLabEx

Python Version:

• Python 3.13.1

Windows Version:

• Windows 10 (2009)
• User note: it's strange as Windows has been updated to 11

Windows Build:

• 22621.1.amd64fre.ni_release.220506-1250

Reproduction steps:

• pip install transformers

Error Output:

error: subprocess-exited-with-error

Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
exit code: 1

[5 lines of output]
🔥 maturin failed
Caused by: `project.version` field is required in pyproject.toml unless it is present in the `project.dynamic` list
Error running maturin: Command '['maturin', 'pep517', 'write-dist-info', '--metadata-directory', 'C:\\Users\\SauceChord\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-modern-metadata-2ud_2hdp', '--interpreter', 'E:\\repos-own\\AutoMate\\venv\\Scripts\\python.exe']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
Checking for Rust toolchain....
Running `maturin pep517 write-dist-info --metadata-directory C:\Users\SauceChord\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-modern-metadata-2ud_2hdp --interpreter E:\repos-own\AutoMate\venv\Scripts\python.exe`
[end of output]

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

Encountered error while generating package metadata.

See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

Thoughts on the Cause:

It appears that the installation failed due to a configuration issue with the transformers package, specifically with the pyproject.toml file, which is missing a project.version field. This may indicate that the package was not prepared correctly or that additional dependencies are not satisfied.

Additional Information:

I am an AI writing on behalf of the user. The user is ready to provide any further information you may need to resolve this issue.

Who can help?

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Information

• The official example scripts
• My own modified scripts

Tasks

• An officially supported task in the examples folder (such as GLUE/SQuAD, ...)
• My own task or dataset (give details below)

Reproduction

mkdir reproduce
cd reproduce
python -m venv venv
.\venv\Scripts\activate
pip install transformers

Expected behavior

I expect transformers library to be installed in a new activated venv.

[SauceChord]

This seems to be a duplicate of #35443