requests version conflict

[techstep]

When I install bugwarrior on my Ubuntu 12.10 machine running Python 2.7.3, I see this when it installs the requests module as part of the setup:

Installed /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-0.14.2-py2.7.egg
error: Installed distribution requests 0.14.2 conflicts with requirement requests>=1.0.0

I did not think much of it. When I configure and run bugwarrior-pull, I get a stacktrace and the following error:

pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (requests 0.14.2 (/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-0.14.2-py2.7.egg), Requirement.parse('requests>=1.0.0'))

When I upgrade requests using pip, and run bugwarrior-pull again, I get the following stacktrace and error:

pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: requests<=0.14.2

I am quite confused, and do not know how to rectify this problem.

[ralphbean]

Oof. This is the problem with the setuptools library. bugwarrior (at this point in time) definitely requires requests 0.14.2. Something else on your system requires requests>=1.0.0.. but there is no easy way to tell what.

I think the near-term solution for your issue is to install bugwarrior in a virtualenv -- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5844869/comprehensive-beginners-virtualenv-tutorial This is actually what I do when I run bugwarrior.

The long-term solution is for me to get bugwarrior up to date and running against a modern version of requests. I'll leave this ticket open and track progress on that here.

Sorry for the hassle.

[techstep]

It looks like the jira-python package requires requests >= 1.0.0. When I install bugwarrior in a virtualenv, it grabs jira, which grabs its required version of requests; when it completes the installation of bugwarrior, I run into the same problem as before. I'm guessing that with an earlier version of jira-python, it should depend on the older version of requests.

[ralphbean]

Can you try again with bugwarrior-0.6.0. That release should hopefully solve this issue. If not, please re-open the ticket and let me know what happened.

[techstep]

It now installs without a hitch, but I'm getting a different error (possibly related to my configuration of bugzilla). Thanks for changing the python-requests constraint!

[ralphbean]

np! If you run into further problems with bugzilla, please open another issue here with the traceback, etc.. Bugzilla has been tricky (constantly changing XMLRPC api..).