Stop pulling unused cffi as a direct dependency in core packaging metadata

[webknjaz]

Fixes #86

[webknjaz]

• I didn't clone the repo locally so no uv lock updated. If somebody gets to it before I do — feel free to push a commit into this branch.

[Vizonex]

Seems there's a bit of the problem in the uv setup.

error: The lockfile at `uv.lock` needs to be updated, but `--locked` was provided. To update the lockfile, run `uv lock`.

Perhaps cffi needs to be removed from the uv.lock file?

[webknjaz]

Yes

[Vizonex]

@webknjaz if you don't have the time currently I would be willing to fork your patch-1 and then commit it. I can't seem to create a reviewer's suggestion. But I could quickly fork and pull request to your branch.

[webknjaz]

Sounds good, thanks!

[webknjaz]

@art049 could you run the CI again?

[Vizonex]

@art049 do you happen to know how to remove the cffi dependency by any chance?

 Caused by: Dependency `cffi` has missing `version` field but has more than one matching package

even I'm having trouble making edits and I use uv a lot for many of my numerous libraries.

[edgarrmondragon]

@art049 do you happen to know how to remove the cffi dependency by any chance?

 Caused by: Dependency `cffi` has missing `version` field but has more than one matching package

even I'm having trouble making edits and I use uv a lot for many of my numerous libraries.

I think it's caused by an old version of uv:

Successfully installed uv version 0.5.20

I opened #95.

[webknjaz]

INTERNALERROR> RuntimeError: Failed to load instrument hooks library: No module named '_cffi_backend'

@Vizonex looks like the dep should be added to the test deps. Would you like to give it a try?

[adriencaccia]

Hey @webknjaz, @Vizonex, @edgarrmondragon. After taking a closer look it was not that easy to remove cffi and keep the library working.
I opened #96 with a WIP for switching to a native extension. It still needs some thorough testing, but otherwise it should be good.

[Vizonex]

@adriencaccia Thanks. This will definitely save both me and webknjaz a headache.