pip install fails

[Betucant]

When running the pip install command I get the following output. Is this a known issue?

pip install -r requirements.txt
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting numpy==1.15.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
Downloading numpy-1.15.1.zip (4.5 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 4.5/4.5 MB 24.5 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [30 lines of output]
Running from numpy source directory.
:378: UserWarning: Unrecognized setuptools command, proceeding with generating Cython sources and expanding templates
C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0dia48pf\numpy_bc3c0bfae7c74b468a1b4073a41bace4\numpy\distutils\misc_util.py:474: SyntaxWarning: "is" with 'str' literal. Did you mean "=="?
return is_string(s) and ('*' in s or '?' is s)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python312\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 353, in
main()
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\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\David Davison\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python312\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 149, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
return hook(metadata_directory, config_settings)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-1bh843yr\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 377, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
self.run_setup()
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-1bh843yr\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 522, in run_setup
super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-1bh843yr\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 320, in run_setup
exec(code, locals())
File "", line 403, in
File "", line 382, in setup_package
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0dia48pf\numpy_bc3c0bfae7c74b468a1b4073a41bace4\numpy\distutils_init_.py", line 8, in
from . import ccompiler
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0dia48pf\numpy_bc3c0bfae7c74b468a1b4073a41bace4\numpy\distutils\ccompiler.py", line 17, in
from numpy.distutils import log
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0dia48pf\numpy_bc3c0bfae7c74b468a1b4073a41bace4\numpy\distutils\log.py", line 13, in
from numpy.distutils.misc_util import (red_text, default_text, cyan_text,
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0dia48pf\numpy_bc3c0bfae7c74b468a1b4073a41bace4\numpy\distutils\misc_util.py", line 16, in
from distutils.msvccompiler import get_build_architecture
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler'
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler'
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler'
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler'
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler'
[end of output]

  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler'
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler'
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler'
  [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.

David Davison@DESKTOP-GQTFJVV MINGW64 ~/Documents/source/photomosaic (master)
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting numpy==1.15.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
Using cached numpy-1.15.1.zip (4.5 MB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [30 lines of output]
Running from numpy source directory.
:378: UserWarning: Unrecognized setuptools command, proceeding with generating Cython sources and expanding templates
C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-pjh9qa71\numpy_8ee54c85a01d46aab33aba5f98ea2131\numpy\distutils\misc_util.py:474: SyntaxWarning: "is" with 'str' literal. Did you mean "=="?
return is_string(s) and ('*' in s or '?' is s)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python312\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 353, in
main()
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\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\David Davison\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python312\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 149, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
return hook(metadata_directory, config_settings)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-alaroj4q\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 377, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
self.run_setup()
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-alaroj4q\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 522, in run_setup
super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-alaroj4q\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 320, in run_setup
exec(code, locals())
File "", line 403, in
File "", line 382, in setup_package
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-pjh9qa71\numpy_8ee54c85a01d46aab33aba5f98ea2131\numpy\distutils_init_.py", line 8, in
from . import ccompiler
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-pjh9qa71\numpy_8ee54c85a01d46aab33aba5f98ea2131\numpy\distutils\ccompiler.py", line 17, in
from numpy.distutils import log
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-pjh9qa71\numpy_8ee54c85a01d46aab33aba5f98ea2131\numpy\distutils\log.py", line 13, in
from numpy.distutils.misc_util import (red_text, default_text, cyan_text,
File "C:\Users\David Davison\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-pjh9qa71\numpy_8ee54c85a01d46aab33aba5f98ea2131\numpy\distutils\misc_util.py", line 16, in
from distutils.msvccompiler import get_build_architecture
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler'
[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.

The error implies one of your dependencies may no longer be available