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On 02/27/2013 05:39 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 18:40 +1100, Kieran Spear wrote:
>> It must be a day for breaking releases. pyparsing 2.0 was just uploaded to
>> pypi and is not compatible with python 2.x.
>> Quantumclient is pulling it in.
>>
>> See:
>>
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/22295/
>> http://logs.openstack.org/22295/2/gate/gate-horizon-python26/1655/console.html
>>
>> quantumclient has been fixed to pin pyparsing [1], but the commit hasn't
>> made it into a pypi release yet.
>> Do we need a 2.1.1 release of quantumclient?
>
> You know, pinning should only ever be a short-term solution. At some
> point, distributions are going to have the newer version of any given
> package and we need to be able to work with that.
>
> Really, any time we pin to a specific dependency version we should also
> file a bug to track the work needed to unpin it again.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.

pyparsing 2.x is never going to support python 2.x. So this is actually 
the long term fix.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague
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