ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'minifier'

[MattReimer]

We have an issue with a small but crucial pip install that is currently out of date:

The HTML5print module (last released in 2016) requires the slimit module (last released in 2013) and this slimit module is broken

• html5print has an open issue for this here
• slimit has a number of fixes that make it work with Python3 but the developer is unresponsive

A temporary fix to unblock developers:

./venv/bin/pip3 uninstall slimit
./venv/bin/pip3 install pip install git+https://github.com/rspivak/slimit.git@3533eba9ad5b39f3a015ae6269670022ab310847

A better fix

Neither html5print nor slimit are being used and we only use these modules to beautify our html output. I think we could get around this issue completely by finding a better, more up-to-date module to do this work.

[philipbaileynar]

If we skip beautifying our HTML, can we just use Visual Studio Code "Format Document" within the team when we need to make sense of the HTML?

I vote to remove these libraries immediately and take our time finding a replacement.

[MattReimer]

Agreed. I originally thought this was used for XML prettifying (which we actually need) but it's not. @jtgilbert , this is only used in the rs_report and that's your next stop right? Can you pull it out please?