tensorflow: tflite Model Maker installation Error metadata-generation-failed, No such file or directory: '..\\VERSION'

Issue Type

Build/Install

Have you reproduced the bug with TF nightly?

Yes

Source

source

Tensorflow Version

2.11.0

Custom Code

No

OS Platform and Distribution

Windows 11

Mobile device

No response

Python version

3.10.4

Bazel version

No response

GCC/Compiler version

No response

CUDA/cuDNN version

No response

GPU model and memory

No response

Current Behaviour?

Hello everyone, I hope you can help me with the following problem

I have checked the requirements several times but always get the same error:

pip install tflite-model-maker results in FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '..\\VERSION' 

Clone source code from GitHub and install results in TypeError: 'WindowsPath' object is not subscriptable

Standalone code to reproduce the issue

pip install tflite-model-maker

Relevant log output

Using cached sentencepiece-0.1.83.tar.gz (497 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [8 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "C:\Users\1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-uny2d85u\sentencepiece_d8babf4dcc3a48be9b4874119d6463fb\setup.py", line 29, in <module>
          with codecs.open(os.path.join('..', 'VERSION'), 'r', 'utf-8') as f:
        File "C:\Users\1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\codecs.py", line 905, in open
          file = builtins.open(filename, mode, buffering)
      FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '..\\VERSION'
      [end of output]

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

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [12 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "C:\Users\1\Desktop\Dev\tflite_model_maker\examples\tensorflow_examples\lite\model_maker\pip_package\setup.py", line 122, in <module>
          INTERNAL_NAME).run()
        File "C:\Users\1\Desktop\Dev\tflite_model_maker\examples\tensorflow_examples\lite\model_maker\pip_package\setup_util.py", line 163, in run
          namespace_packages = find_namespace_packages(where=self.build_dir)
        File "C:\Users\1\Desktop\Dev\tflite_model_maker\tfliteMM-venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\__init__.py", line 64, in find
          convert_path(where),
        File "C:\Users\1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\distutils\util.py", line 123, in convert_path
          if pathname[0] == '/':
      TypeError: 'WindowsPath' object is not subscriptable
      [end of output]