failed dependency in setup.py

0.6 Support is in progress (ibid in Debian is shipping with a patch for it), however 0.6 broke some (quite deep) APIs that we depend on, and so we don't have good 0.6 support yet.

Yes, 0.1.1's setup.py will depend on sqlalchemy < 0.6

I tried < 0.6 actually. it then sucks in 0.6beta which is broken too. I don't know enough about python's dependencies to know how to exclude the beta without specifying an explicit 0.5.x maximum version

I guessed you'd tried it, I meant < 0.6 in the "verbal patch" sense :)

To clarify what I said about our current 0.6 patch:

I think it works mostly fine in production (there are some unicode-related issues on Postgres), but it creates databases with the incorrect schema (things that should be case-insensitive aren't). So upgrading a bot is fine, creating a new bot may cause you some future trouble.

Better workaround:
SQLAlchemy < 0.5a