This probably isn't the "real" solution, but I've been using svn-clean 
to clean my doc directory.  Though I agree with John, we should have a 
clear demarkation between svn content and generated content.

Cheers,
Mike

Darren Dale wrote:
> On Friday 13 June 2008 9:54:58 pm you wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>>     
> wrote:
>   
>>> I just deleted the static_figs directory from svn, and moved the contents
>>> into pyplots. The generated figures were committed to svn as well, so
>>> they should not be auto-generated. This way we can consistently use the
>>> nice plot directive to include all of our figures. I think there should
>>> be no problems with this transition, but if you see one, please let me
>>> know.
>>>       
>> I think we can make it work, but there are some minor hurdles.  It is
>> a little brittle in my view to include auto-generated PNGs alongside
>> svn pngs because it makes cleaning hard (we currently have the same
>> problem in the _static dir with the mathtext pngs).
>>     
>
> How often does cleaning need to be done? Can "svn up" be a part of the 
> cleaning process?
>
>   
>> The other problem 
>> is that when I went to implement your svg suggestion, which is a good
>> one (ditto for ps links), I bumped into some not implemented errors
>> since we don't have draw_tex for svg and some latex runtime problems
>> when I tried to build the ps since I don't have the right fonts.  All
>> of this can be worked around, but it will take a little work.  I have
>> to run now...
>>
>> We could have a little extra meta data stored, tagging certain files
>> that should not be auto-generated for certain extensions....
>> Perhaps we should introduce a new plot directive option, much like
>> include-source, which  could be used to suppress auto-gen, or exclude
>> certain targets.
>>
>> .. plot:: tex_unicode_demo.py
>>
>>    :include-source:
>>    :no-autogen:
>>
>> .. plot:: tex_unicode_demo.py
>>
>>    :include-source:
>>    :exclude-backends: svg, gdk
>>
>> I'll ponder this over the weekend.
>>     
>
> May I suggest a third alternative, :exclude-formats: instead of backends.
>
> Darren
>   

-- 
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA


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