build: Explicit protobuf build version; consistent build/setup deps by cburroughs · Pull Request #4472 · feast-dev/feast

Right now if one downloads feast-0.40.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl from PyPi it contains:

$ grep 'Protobuf Python Version' feast/protos/feast/registry/RegistryServer_pb2.py

Which is outside

$ grep 'protobuf<' feast-0.40.1.dist-info/METADATA
Requires-Dist: protobuf<5.0.0,>=4.24.0

Leading to runtime errors (#4437). This was mitigated by #4438. This change tightens this up further by:

• Deleting the Makefile command that was trying to do this unsuccessfully.
• Aligns the setup/build requirements
• Sets the version of protobuf to match the minimum of the range. There is no guarantee that protos generated by 4.X will work with 4.(X-1).