Description
The docutils package is missing from the new Python installation on http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de
Steps to reproduce
Look at some page in the MoinMoinWiki using RST (ReStructuredText) Markup. Theses pages used to work until a few days ago.
Example
This is a short embedded ReStructuredText example snippet: {{{ #!rst This should be rendered as ReStructuredText_ }}}
Currently (as of Dec 6th, 7th) this produces still the following error message:
This should be rendered as ReStructuredText
Details
This Wiki. Please use the action Clear Cache on any Wiki page containing RST markup (in particular the rather important HelpOnParsers/ReStructuredText page) and see, that the moinmoin main site still reports a missing docutils package, which is very sad news!
Workaround
None. 
Discussion
Are there any security or other issues which caused the docutils package to be removed? I would be interested to know about and to get them fixed in docutils.
It didn't vanish, it just was not installed as we moved to python 2.4.2 and recent twisted code. It showed some error handling problem, so i left it uninstalled until that error is fixed. We don't use rst here, so I didn't have to hurry. -- ThomasWaldmann
Hmmm... What Do you mean with "We don't use rst here"?
Yesterday (December 6th) the page HelpOnParsers/ReStructuredText showed the Anzeigen von reStructured Text ist nicht möglich, bitte installieren Sie docutils error message to me. Today the RST sections in this particular page are mysteroiusly rendered okay again. (what I don't understand: But hey, it is better so 
), but other pages like for example HelpOnParsers/ReStructuredText/RstPrimer still show the error. -- PeterFunk
I cleared the cache for HelpOnParsers/ReStructuredText. It still showed the RST markup because it was cached.
Can you explain in more detail what kind of error handling problem you have with docutils and python 2.4.2? What version of docutils are you using? Since I have cvs commit permission to docutils.sf.net I could try to help get it fixed. -- PeterFunk
- The problem is not related to docutils code, but moin's error handling when docutils was missing. It was fixed.
Please reinstall docutils to make the #!rst examples working again. -- PeterFunk
Its' now over a month ago. I wish you all a Happy new year. Any chance to see docutils reinstalled on this server any time soon? -- PeterFunk
Plan
- Priority: low
Assigned to: ThomasWaldmann
- Status: installed docutil 0.4(.0) and fixed the docutils version check, too