No, that's exactly what I was thinking about - some newly-found font might break matplotlib, or might change somebody's output because of the font matching algorithm. Actually, the font matching system can sometimes break things:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.general/18255/focus=18260 Did that ever get fixed? Jouni Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> writes: > Sorry about that bug. Obviously it wasn't tested properly. > > It seems like the only side effect of this change is that matplotlib > will pull in fonts from non-standard locations defined in their > fontconfig configuration. (It's already pulling them from standard > locations that are hardcoded in font_manager.py). There's a chance that > some of these fonts will cause matplotlib to explode -- but no more so > than if there were in a standard location. > > I think it seems like a pretty benign change -- unless there's something > in particular you're thinking of that I'm not... > > Mike > > Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: >> Because of the problem described here: >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.general/20328 >> >> I modified font_manager.py to use subprocess.Popen instead of >> commands.getstatusoutput, since subprocess seems to deal with EINTR >> while the commands module does not. While looking at it, I changed the >> command being run from >> >> fc-list file >> >> to >> >> fc-list '' file >> >> because the former doesn't return any fonts on any system I have access >> to (maybe it would if I had a font whose name includes the word "file"), >> but the latter looks more like it is the intended command. Since the >> get_fontconfig_fonts function has not returned anything useful for some >> time (though presumably it has at some point in the past), this change >> might have big effects somewhere else. >> >> Would this change be appropriate for the bugfix branch? >> >> -- Jouni K. Seppänen http://www.iki.fi/jks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
