installation on MacOS with Python 3.12 runs into many dependency conflicts

[kjappelbaum]

ran into a bunch of the things described here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77364550/attributeerror-module-pkgutil-has-no-attribute-impimporter-did-you-mean

[kjappelbaum]

perhaps run installation test on different Python versions once the refactoring is done, then do a release