[Buildbot-devel] sqlalchemy snafu part deux

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> Evidently https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/commit/f9fda440b0719e2673dfba1be0ac6319af07778c
> wasn't enough ?
>
> I had to apply this patch to get the 0.8.7 branch to install today:
>
> --- a/master/setup.py
> +++ b/master/setup.py
> @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ else:
>      setup_args['install_requires'] = [
>          'twisted >= 9.0.0',
>          'Jinja2 >= 2.1',
> -        'sqlalchemy >= 0.6, < 0.8',
> +        'sqlalchemy >= 0.6, <= 0.7.9',
>          # buildbot depends on sqlalchemy internals, and these are the tested
>          # versions.
>          'sqlalchemy-migrate ==0.6.1, ==0.7.0, ==0.7.1, ==0.7.2',
>
> (actually I did < 0.7.9, but <= is probably more accurate)
>
> Otherwise it tried installing 0.8.0b2, and fell over.

Someone needs to have a talk with the sqlalchemy devs about their
version naming.  Also, why is everyone using their betas?

Dustin