Please lower Genshi requirement to 0.4.4

[carlos@…]

Someone following TracInstall would inadvertedly install Genshi ≥ 0.4.1 (I just changed the wording to reflect the 'status quo). However, when issuing trac-admin, the following error would be produced:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/trac-admin", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2565, in <module>
    parse_requirements(__requires__), Environment()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 524, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)  # XXX put more info here
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: Genshi>=0.5

Is it possible to lower the requirement to support Genshi 0.4.4?

[Emmanuel Blot]

I really don't see how requesting to use the latest official release would be a blocker issue…

[anonymous]

I might have misunderstood the severity levels, but it is a showstopper to anyone without access to the latest Genshi (which is why I've set it to blocker).

Considering it's only 3 weeks old, anyone without root access and a willing sysadmin cannot install Trac 0.11. By the way… is Genshi 0.5 really *needed* or is it just better because of X and Y issues?

[Noah Kantrowitz]

Genshi 0.5 includes numerous fixes to things like memory usage. It also added the Transformer filter generator, which is used in a number of plugins. We have no intention to drop to the support level back to 0.4.4. Given that Trac 0.11 is newer than Genshi 0.5, I don't see how you would be able to upgrade one but not the other. Unless there is an actual blocker bug in Genshi 0.5, I see no reason to do this (and even then, better to release 0.5.1 and bump the req to that).

[anonymous]

Understood.

[Emmanuel Blot]

Replying to anonymous:

it is a showstopper to anyone without access to the latest Genshi (which is why I've set it to blocker).

Genshi is available the same way Trac is: if you can get access to Trac, you can get access to Genshi.

Considering it's only 3 weeks old, anyone without root access and a willing sysadmin cannot install Trac 0.11.

You can install Genshi and Trac w/o root access.
Even though, not having the permissions on your environment is a bit out of scope of the Trac project.