fix broken import `typing_extensions`

The last release had an undeclared dependency on typing_extensions, which would cause an import error if you didn't install typing_extensions yourself.

Select Reporter via Environment Variable

Also some minor fixes.
https://github.com/approvals/ApprovalTests.Python/blob/main/docs/how_to/use_environment_variable_reporter.md

PEP 625 compliance

Renames the file uploaded to mypy from approvaltests-minimal to approvaltests_minimal. This should have no affect visible to users, as pip will work the same either way.

#221

PEP 625 compliance

Renames the file uploaded to mypy from approvaltests-minimal to approvaltests_minimal. This should have no affect visible to users, as pip will work the same either way.

#221

fix release process

no user-facing changes

minor refactorings

v18.0.2

. d tidy code and update markdown snippets

Fix package metadata

Use the appropriate license tag to fix a warning produced with Python 3.10 packaging.

Removing support for Python 3.8 and 3.9

Our linter cleanup changed lots of things which might break importing in Python 3.8 and 3.9.

We also fixed approvaltests-minimal to declare its dependency on approval_utilities. (#251)

Fix broken package

The previous release (v17.4.2) had an error that meant it could not be imported.

Fix pypi version classifiers

No functional changes. This just updates the version classifiers on Pypi to include the newer versions of Python that we now support (3.12, 3.13, 3.14).

See https://pypi.org/project/approvaltests/

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