Do a proper mpl version check

[Zhitao-Li]

Current version check will fail when mpl version becomes equal or greater than 3.10.

[ianhi]

Hi @Zhitao-Li thank you very much for the PR! This is definitely a bug, however I'd prefer to fix it by comparing to the new (since matplotlib version 3.5) __version_info__ provided by matplotlib like in this commit:

mpl-extensions/mpl-image-segmenter@1203e8f

Are you able to modify your PR to that? Then I'll happily accept and merge

[ianhi]

Ah actually: @Zhitao-Li please consider switching to using the standalone package for the image segmenter: mpl-image-segmenter. I plan on deprecating and removing it from this package and only supporting the standalone package going forward.

In addition to having bugfixes it also has some new features not in this version. See discussion here: https://mpl-image-segmenter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/differences.html

[Zhitao-Li]

Thanks for the suggestion, I am switching to the new package. However, it looks like there is a similar bug in that package as well.

[ianhi]

What version are you using there? It should be fixed in version 0.2.1

[Zhitao-Li]

Yeah, sorry about the confusion, the pip package was out of date, now I am using a development install from the git repository, it is fixed.

Thanks!