Pylons broken dependency

[Mike Orr]

Interesting that we've just been discussing making a frozen Pylons
release with all its dependencies because something new has just
broken. When I deployed an application to a new server and it raised
an exception, a second exception occurred in WebError and masked the
first one. It may not be in WebError itself but in
distribute/setuptools, because the secondary error was "KeyError:
setuptools". It broke the interactive traceback completely; I just get
the low-level Paste "Internal Server Error" (in teletype font).

So I made a requirements.txt from the slightly-older versions on my
workstation ("pip freeze >requirements.txt"), installed that on the
server ("pip install -r requirements.txt"), and the problem went away.

I'm leaving for PyCon tomorrow morning so I won't be able to follow up
on this until I get back, but I wanted to let people know in case it
happens to you in the meantime.

And maybe somebody who's currently using Pylons can try to reproduce
this. Make a new virtualenv, install an existing Pylons application
into it, and trigger an exception in one of the actions. The specific
exception I had was trying to access a PostgreSQL table that didn't
exist in the reflected metadata (because the table in fact was
missing). But I think it would happen with any exception that would
normally trigger the interactive traceback.

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[Michael Merickel]

Maybe you can just publish a working requirements.txt file and recommend that people upgrade packages from there at their own peril.

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[Mike Orr]

OK, here it is.

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