[matplotlib-devel] requesting permission to remove traits and configobj

There has been a report at the bugtracker complaining that matplotlib is
overwriting an existing installation of configobj. I had a look at the code
and thought the bug report must be a mistake or windows specific, but I just
saw similar behavior on my linux system.

I would like to simply remove configobj and traits from our repository. They
are only used by the long-neglected experimental traited config package,
which is only of interest to developers who can easily install them as
external dependencies. Is it ok to remove them? If so, should it be done on
all the branches?

How long are we going to continue to maintain the different branches? It was
so much easier back when we only had to worry about the trunk...

Thanks,
Darren