On Friday 09 November 2007 07:25:09 am Michael Droettboom wrote:
> Darren wrote:
> * Use the system pyparsing, if available. If not, install pyparsing like we
> do with pytz and dateutil. matplotlib.pyparsing is gone.
>
> That seems like a bad idea.  In my experience, pyparsing has changed APIs
> at even minor releases.  Worse, given the complexity of the interface, I
> wouldn't be surprised if more subtle differences or bugs were introduced by
> different versions.  I understand the argument for this for the bigger
> packages, but pyparsing isn't that many lines of code, and is a single
> file.  I don't know if the saved disk space and bandwidth is worth the
> extra maintenance and support effort.  I would much prefer to write for a
> single version of pyparsing that we can verify works.

OK, I'll move it back into matplotlib then.

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