fix:hot-fix pdfgui functionality fix after skpkg

[stevenhua0320]

@sbillinge ready to review. We have done the skpkg for this without waiting for its dependency new version release and we merged that PR. But today when I ran it using the developer version of diffpy.pdfgui, it gives me a lot of errors other than the python version. So, I made this PR to fix all of these.

1. I added an __date__ variable in aboutdialog.py since it is the only place that we need the __date__. This helps us to run the pytest sucessfully.
2. Closes changes when we drop python 3.11 #194, and also I updated the os.path to Path() object to comply with the group standard.
3. I also made an edit to the pyproject.toml, this is needed because in the skpkg it changes the actual script running the pdfgui. Therefore, I changed it back to the application and in order to comply with the name of the app in the tutorial, I also changed the name of the command from diffpy-pdfgui back to pdfgui.

After finishing up these, I ran the pytest and also running the app, it works properly now. The CI would still failing since dependecies haven't updated to 3.14 yet, but now local test would confirm that everything is right now.

(diffpy.pdfgui_env) huarundong@Stevens-MacBook-Pro-405 diffpy.pdfgui % pytest
================================================================================================================== test session starts ===================================================================================================================
platform darwin -- Python 3.13.12, pytest-9.0.2, pluggy-1.6.0
rootdir: /Users/huarundong/dbs/diffpy.pdfgui
configfile: pyproject.toml
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  /Users/huarundong/dbs/diffpy.pdfgui/src/diffpy/pdfgui/control/fitdataset.py:480: VisibleDeprecationWarning: dtype(): align should be passed as Python or NumPy boolean but got `align=0`. Did you mean to pass a tuple to create a subarray type? (Deprecated NumPy 2.4)
    content = pickle.loads(z.read(subpath + "calc"), encoding="latin1")

-- Docs: https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/capture-warnings.html
============================================================================================================= 58 passed, 4 warnings in 1.22s =============================================================================================================

[sbillinge]

Please can you check? This seems to be failing tests. Done version compatibility on problem?

[sbillinge]

Please can you check? This seems to be failing tests. Done version compatibility on problem?

Ah, I read the full comment above, my apologies. I will merge this.

[sbillinge]

actually, let's go a bit more slowly. Let's finalize the release of pdffit2 (please see the issue over there), push out that full release and rerun the action here so it passes, then I will merge.

[stevenhua0320]

As we have released the new version of both diffpy.pdffit2 and diffpy.structure, we could rerun the tests-on-pr workflow to test whether there is any errors remain.

[sbillinge]

@stevenhua0320 please see the message in slack. I couldn't merge diffpy.pdffit2-feedstock and it needs some help. There is a pesky circular import that only happens on windows. Pleaes could you look at that and see if we can get pdffit2 merged?

[sbillinge]

actually, I will have to merge it, but if you can get it passing tests I can do it. We may have to update the code in the pdffit2 itself to fix it, but hopefully it is changing how the tests are run in CF to fix it. Please make your own PR and work on that.

[stevenhua0320]

actually, I will have to merge it, but if you can get it passing tests I can do it. We may have to update the code in the pdffit2 itself to fix it, but hopefully it is changing how the tests are run in CF to fix it. Please make your own PR and work on that.

I have seen your PR on the feedstock on that. Let me first inspect where the issue is!