cookiecutter: modified files pt1

[cadenmyers13]

@sbillinge splitting up the modified files PR

[sbillinge]

please see inline comments.

[sbillinge]

we will need this xvfb action for the wx.

This PR is getting the tests to pass and will take some work, so put all the workflow work on a separate PR. I had it working before with the mamba stuff and we may need to do it that way, but let's try and get as far as we can with the cookiecutter version, then see if we can the xvfb action to work. WHen I was doing it before, it couldn't activate the conda environment for some reason. Let's work on this on a separate PR.

[Sparks29032]

@cadenmyers13 Please merge the PR I sent in before making edits on this branch. These are to fix the deprecations and modify the way we access the date of the package. Yes, it currently uses os rather than Pathlib, but I'm sure the migration should be easy, and I want to get this fix in before my computer blue-screens again. One of my RAM drivers is broken.

[Sparks29032]

The PR migrates pkg_resources and modifies how the daemon is accessed.

[Sparks29032]

Add importlib_resources to build.txt or run.txt. If you add it to build.txt you need to add the line conda install --file requirements/build.txt in the main.yml.

[sbillinge]

@cadenmyers13 @Sparks29032 please let me know what to do with this. Merge? or wait.

[Sparks29032]

Let's try getting tests passing on the CI before merging. Hard :(

[cadenmyers13]

@sbillinge @Sparks29032 since wxpython requires python<=3.11 I changed the required python to be less than 3.12. The CI error now is saying that diffpy.pdfgui requires 3.12.4 (which now isn't available). Ideas on how to fix this?

[sbillinge]

@cadenmyers13 let me know what you want me to do with this PR. Are we working on getting the tests to pass? Do we want to merge some things first and then build a new PR for trouble-shooting the tests? That might seem like a better idea?

[cadenmyers13]

@cadenmyers13 let me know what you want me to do with this PR. Are we working on getting the tests to pass? Do we want to merge some things first and then build a new PR for trouble-shooting the tests? That might seem like a better idea?

I agree. Let's get this merged first then start on the CI fix.

[sbillinge]

@cadenmyers13 I'm closing this. Please can you make a clean PR with everything not related to getting the code to run, so just .codecov.yml, .coveragerc, .gitattributes, .gitignore, CHANGELOG.rst, pyproject.toml README.rst then we will go more slowly with the rest.