numpy

Does mpl only work with specific versions of numpy?

    > Should mpl check for a required version and report an
    > error if its not there?

numpy has been a bit of a moving target of late, and typically the
latest release of mpl works with the latest release of numpy, and mpl
svn works with numpy svn, but you can't mix and match. Hopefully this
will stabilize soon.

JDH