Darren Dale wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.  Hope it isn't too much trouble to undo those changes.  (Sorry 
for the gruff e-mail.  I shouldn't e-mail before my morning coffee...)

Cheers,
Mike

-- 
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA

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