Allow newer versions of importlib-metadata

[kasium]

flake8 currently pins importlib-metadata<4.3;python_version<"3.8", but e.g. sphinx needs a newer version importlib-metadata>=4.4; python_version < '3.10'. Can we allow flake8 to consume newer versions?

[MarcoGorelli]

Hey - from #1438 this seems unlikely, I'd suggest closing this to reduce the load on the maintainers

[kasium]

Okay, I read thru the thread, but how should this now move on? Should I ask sphinx to relax their pin?

[MarcoGorelli]

One suggestion could be to run flake8 via pre-commit, so it runs in its own virtual environment and there's no dependency clash

Should I ask sphinx to relax their pin?

Could do, but check if it's been asked already first

[sigmavirus24]

If you can, use something that isolates your different tools for you. There are lots of things that do this:

• pipx
• nox
• rox
• virtualenv
• pre-commit
• and plenty more I probably don't know about or have forgotten