This weekend I put a bit of time into bringing the Debian packaging[1] for the matplotlib 1.0 series up to date.
In the tree it seems there is a matplotlibrc in the /doc directory. Judging from the documentation, it looks like matplotlib will first use a matplotlibrc in the current directory. This works very well for the case of packaging for Debian, since I can simply override the examples.* options here to avoid downloading the samples while building the documentation. In practice, however, I have run into a few issues. First, the comment regarding examples.directory indicates that this path must be absolute. Is this really true? For obvious reasons we don't know the absolute path of the samples until we actually build the package. I suppose an 'echo' in the packaging makefile could dynamically patch this path in, but a relative path would be far simpler. Secondly, it seems that the doc/matplotlibrc file is completely ignored. When I tried building with "examples.directory=../sampledata", I still saw multiple failed download attempts in the package build log. Indeed, even putting an invalid line in doc/matplotlibrc doesn't result in an error. For the record, the documentation build process is invoked with, cd doc ; MATPLOTLIBDATA=../lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/ \ PYTHONPATH=../build/lib.$(PY_PLATFORM)-$(DEFPY) ./make.py --small all Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. - Ben [1] https://launchpad.net/~bgamari/+archive/matplotlib-unofficial ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What happens now with your Lotus Notes apps - do you make another costly upgrade, or settle for being marooned without product support? Time to move off Lotus Notes and onto the cloud with Force.com, apps are easier to build, use, and manage than apps on traditional platforms. Sign up for the Lotus Notes Migration Kit to learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/salesforce-d2d _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
