Fixes for windows support (#22)

* windows fix

* review fixes

* inode

* pre-commit updates

* coverage

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Co-authored-by: Filip Richtarik <[email protected]>

Add requires-python metadata (#23)

* Add requires-python metadata through the addition of setuptools's
  python_requires in setup.py.
   - c.f. https://peps.python.org/pep-0621/#requires-python

* The addition of requires-python is to provide guards to keep older
  CPython versions from installing releases that could contain
  unrunnable code.

addd back expected v prefix to version tags (#20)

addd back expected v prefix to version tags

add no-vendor installation of versioneer

minor cleanup in README