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fix(deps): declare colorama on Windows so a clean install can run (#846) - #857
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`configure_logging` renders TEXT logs with `structlog.dev.ConsoleRenderer(colors=True)`, and structlog's Windows `_init_terminal` raises `SystemError` outright when colorama is missing. The call sits in the Click group callback, so it fires before any subcommand body — a clean Windows install aborted every interactive command with a traceback that named structlog and never gflow, and the README's Windows quick-start failed as written. Nothing in the runtime closure supplied it: structlog keeps colorama an optional extra and rich ships its own Windows console handling. The only colorama edge in uv.lock came from pytest, a DEV dependency, so every developer machine and every CI job had it transitively and no gate could see the gap. Declaring the dependency keeps the coloured output the call site intends, rather than degrading to colors=False. Piped stderr escaped the crash (AUTO then resolves to the JSON renderer), which is why non-interactive and CI use never tripped over it. Reproduced on a clean Python 3.13 venv against develop, then verified by reinstalling the fix into that same venv: the `gflow doctor` run that raised SystemError now completes, on both the CLI and the MCP stdio server. A behavioural test cannot catch the absence (pytest supplies colorama), so tests/test_observability.py asserts the declaration. Closes #846
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In `@tests/test_observability.py`:
- Line 216: Extend the assertion covering colorama.marker in the observability
tests to evaluate and require false for at least one non-Windows platform, such
as Linux or macOS, while preserving the existing win32 match check. Use the
marker symbol directly and keep the test focused on verifying Windows-only
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Verify that the marker excludes non-Windows platforms.
pyproject.toml currently uses the correct Windows-only marker, but this assertion checks only that the marker matches win32. A broader marker such as sys_platform != "linux" would pass while also selecting macOS. Evaluate non-Windows platforms as well.
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- assert colorama.marker is not None and colorama.marker.evaluate({"sys_platform": "win32"}), (
+ assert colorama.marker is not None, "colorama must have a Windows-only marker"
+ assert colorama.marker.evaluate({"sys_platform": "win32"})
+ assert not colorama.marker.evaluate({"sys_platform": "linux"})
+ assert not colorama.marker.evaluate({"sys_platform": "darwin"}), (
f"colorama's marker {str(colorama.marker)!r} excludes win32, which is "
"the only platform that needs it"
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| assert colorama.marker is not None and colorama.marker.evaluate({"sys_platform": "win32"}), ( | |
| assert colorama.marker is not None, "colorama must have a Windows-only marker" | |
| assert colorama.marker.evaluate({"sys_platform": "win32"}) | |
| assert not colorama.marker.evaluate({"sys_platform": "linux"}) | |
| assert not colorama.marker.evaluate({"sys_platform": "darwin"}), ( |
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In `@tests/test_observability.py` at line 216, Extend the assertion covering
colorama.marker in the observability tests to evaluate and require false for at
least one non-Windows platform, such as Linux or macOS, while preserving the
existing win32 match check. Use the marker symbol directly and keep the test
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Summary
A clean Windows install of
gflow-clicould not run a single interactive command.configure_loggingrenders TEXT logs withstructlog.dev.ConsoleRenderer(colors=True)(src/gflow_cli/observability.py:104), and structlog's Windows_init_terminalraisesSystemErroroutright whencoloramais missing. That call lives in the Click group callback (src/gflow_cli/cli.py:158), so it fires before any subcommand body — the failure read as a broken install rather than an incomplete one, and the traceback named structlog and never gflow.coloramais now declared as asys_platform == "win32"runtime dependency.Why no gate could see it
Nothing in the runtime closure supplies
colorama: structlog keeps it an optional extra, andrichships its own Windows console handling. The only edge tocoloramainuv.lockcomes frompytest— a dev dependency — carrying the samewin32marker. So every developer machine and every CI job had it transitively, and the gap was invisible to the entire suite.That is also why the regression test asserts the declaration rather than the behaviour: a behavioural test passes on any machine that has pytest installed, which is every machine that could run it.
One refinement to the report
It is every interactive command, not literally every command.
log_formatdefaults toAUTO, which resolves to TEXT only on a stderr TTY; with stderr piped it selects the JSON renderer and survives. Not a mitigation — interactive use is the normal case, andGFLOW_CLI_LOG_FORMAT=textcrashes either way — but it explains why scripted and CI invocations never tripped over it.Why declare rather than degrade
The issue offered an alternative: pick
colors=based on whether colorama imports, falling back tocolors=False. Declaring the dependency keeps the coloured output the call site intends, and a fallback would be defending against a package manager failing to honour a declared dependency. One line beats a branch here.Test plan
Reproduced and verified on a clean Python 3.13 venv carrying only the runtime closure (no dev extras, colorama confirmed absent):
develop@ 0.77.0 —GFLOW_CLI_LOG_FORMAT=text gflow doctor:SystemError: ConsoleRenderer with 'colors=True' on Windows requires the colorama package installed.AUTOcompletes, confirming the TTY/JSON split above.colorama==0.4.6resolves, and the identicalgflow doctorrun completes with exit 33 (findings-present, the documented success code).gflow mcp runon the same clean venv with TEXT logs reachesmcp.server.startingand exits 0 on EOF. Same group callback, so the packaging fix covers both doors; run separately per the second law rather than inferred.develop(colorama is not declared in [project.dependencies]) and passes with the fix.ruff check,ruff format --check,pyright src(0 errors) — all green.uv lockre-resolved;coloramanow appears as a runtime edge ofgflow-cli, not just ofpytest.E2E scope: this touches no Flow surface — it is packaging plus the logging bootstrap — so no
tests/e2e/test applies. The clean-venv before/after above is the decisive run.Closes #846
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