On 10/01/2010 11:46 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > On 10/01/2010 10:40 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: >> On 10/01/2010 11:31 AM, Jason Grout wrote: >>> I'm working on updating matplotlib in Sage to 1.0. We're running into >>> a problem where it seems that the fontList.cache is not being updated. >>> I've included an example session below. The .matplotlib directory is >>> accessible here: >>> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/jason/.matplotlib/ The problem >>> seems to be that it is looking for a file that does not exist: >>> >>> [ja...@sage:/scratch/jason/sage-4.6.alpha2]$ ls >>> /scratch/grout/sage-4.5.3/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/Vera.ttf >>> ls: cannot access >>> /scratch/grout/sage-4.5.3/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/Vera.ttf: >>> No such file or directory >>> >>> >>> Does anyone have any idea what is going on? Why is the fontList.cache >>> file not being updated, instead of trying to access a path that doesn't >>> exist? >> There is a fix in SVN for this, but it has not yet been released. When >> a font file is not found, it rebuilds the entire font cache on the spot. > Thanks. Do you know the commit? We'll apply it to the Sage matplotlib > package. > > It's r8712. >>> A related question is: I see the variable USE_FONTCONFIG in >>> font_manager.py. It says it is experimental. How stable is that code? >>> It's tempting to switch to using fontconfig. >> I use it as a matter of course on my Linux box and haven't had any >> issues. It's experimental because it's the kind of thing that is so >> affected by external environmental issues and distro differences. Just >> because it "works for me", there's no guarantee it will work >> everywhere. But go ahead and give it a try and report back with the >> distro you're using. >> > Well, with Sage, we're using it on a number of distros, flavors of OSX, > Solaris, etc. So maybe I'll stick with the home-grown caching > solution. At least until we've tested it a bit on different support > platforms for Sage. > > I thought there was some sort of build bot for matplotlib that tested on > a number of platforms. Do you know how the fontconfig stuff does on > that (if it exists...). I don't think the buildbots are turning on fontconfig support. And I believe all of the buildbots are some flavour of Ubuntu (the OS-X buildbot is not running), so there's not a lot of coverage.
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