install fails on AIX

[flynn1973]

Collecting rpds-py>=0.7.1
  Using cached rpds_py-0.18.0.tar.gz (25 kB)
  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

  [7 lines of output]
  📦 Including license file "/tmp/pip-install-u2k8hxh1/rpds-py_154bc2dbeb184a65a6fc57bfa730f50b/LICENSE"
  🔗 Found pyo3 bindings
  💥 maturin failed
    Caused by: The operating system Aix is not supported
  Error running maturin: Command '['maturin', 'pep517', 'write-dist-info', '--metadata-directory', '/tmp/pip-modern-metadata-xqyg4z7o', '--interpreter', '/opt/freeware/bin/python3.9']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
  Checking for Rust toolchain....
  Running `maturin pep517 write-dist-info --metadata-directory /tmp/pip-modern-metadata-xqyg4z7o --interpreter /opt/freeware/bin/python3.9`
  [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.

[Julian]

Hi there. That sounds like it'd need to be solved upstream, either in maturin or else rust itself I'm afraid. Once that's done it may work.

[flynn1973]

ok, will check back with the maturin guys