iotile / iotile/coretools

Update for compatibility with pyparsing 2.3.0

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iotile-build iotile-sensorgraph priority:urgent type:bug
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Description

It looks like pyparsing 2.3.0 is backwards incompatible even though it's marked as a minor update. It came out 12 hours ago and it looks like it breaks iotile-sensorgraph and possibly also iotile-build.

Immediate fix is to pin the version specifier of pyparsing in both packages to pyparsing~=2.2.0 but we should fix but we should also fix the incompatibility and move to using pyparsing 2.3.0.

It looks from the release notes like they fixed a previous bug that we had already built a workaround to inside out code and the fix changes the behavior in a way that breaks the workaround.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction

Start by locating the pyparsing dependency declarations in iotile-sensorgraph and iotile-build, then trace the existing workaround affected by the 2.3.0 behavior change. Compare both packages with pyparsing 2.3.0 and confirm the compatibility issue is resolved; otherwise retain the stated version pin as the fallback.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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