On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Gael Pasgrimaud <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:35 PM, gazza <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hiya, >>> >>> I am installing on the production server and hit the below: >>> >>> "Installed distribution Webhelpers 1.0b4 conflicts with requirement >>> WebHelpers>=0.6.1,<0.6.99" >>> >>> I guess others have seen this problem. What was the workaround? >>> >> >> Try to remove the conflicted version from your file sytem and install >> the correct one with easy_install >> >> Btw I think that fixing eggs versions in setup.py is a bad idea. >> Pylons should have a pip's requirement file or something like that (I >> also know Zope's Known Good Set aka KGS) for each releases to get the >> correct dependencies versions. >> Then if you have a fix in a dependency you can change the required >> version without releasing a new Pylons versions > > The problem is Paste uses entry points and 'pkg_resources.require', > which blows up if any requirements are in conflict. >
That's why a requirement file can fix the problem if you only have Dep==X.X in this file. This assume that you can have a *stable* Pylons X.X environment even if a broken dependency is released on pypi. And again, buildout can help: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/buildout.dumppickedversions May be that's something I can do and maintain. I'll try. > Where does the requirement occur? The Pylons WebHelpers dependency > does not have a maximum bound precisely to avoid this problem. If > you've changed it in your application's setup.py, you'll have to > change it again (and reinstall the app to update the egg-info files). > > Of course, it doesn't help that the error messages often give no clue > where the requirement is. > > -- > Mike Orr <[email protected]> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
