On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:15 AM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote:
>
> > I thought that problem was already addressed in a previous patch? John,
> > could this be another "gremlin"? Or did I mis-understand the whole issue
> > absolute path problem?
>
> My understanding is that because sphinx switches the current working
> directory during execution, this path must be absolute. We could get
> around this by processing a relative path internally in mpl at rc load
> time, and converting it into an absolute path assuming the path is
> relative to the directory containing the rc file.
>
> JDH
>
I actually think that would be a better solution. Python's os.path module
is very powerful with functions like isabs(), abspath(), expanduser(),
expandvars() and realpath(). Of course, one could easily go overboard with
this, but I am sure we could probably allow for something real simple like
expandvars() so that packagers could utilize environment variables for the
build process?
Ben Root
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