Get ASV Benchmarks running again

[Illviljan]

• Closes #xxxx
• Tests added
• User visible changes (including notable bug fixes) are documented in whats-new.rst
• New functions/methods are listed in api.rst

#10355 (comment)
#10512

[keewis]

there's something really weird going on: somewhere in the failing CI there's a ImportError because of collections.Iterable (removed in python 3.10), triggered from sparse/coo.py which has not existed since sparse=0.3.1.

However, even pinning sparse doesn't really help, locally I always get broken environments (something about __glibc not being available). So I don't really know how to fix this.

[Illviljan]

Hitting pypa/setuptools#4993 while trying to install Xarray in the benchmark environment.

I fixed it in pyproject by bumping setuptools version but for the benchmarks it builds in no isolation mode. I reverted license to the old format in pyproject.

Looks like numpy 2.2 (pin required because numba doesn't support numpy 2.3 yet) requires an old version of setuptools that doesn't work with the license entry in pyproject.

#10355 (comment)

I was hoping if we can install numpy 2.3 it will work better?

[keewis]

does numpy still use setuptools? I thought they switched to meson?