> I agree that there still is a problem. Before, I didn't think that > Sage's matplotlib would need to have different options to even be able > to function.
The problem that I am running into is that my ~./matplotlib/matplotlibrc sets a backend (macosx) that the Sage matplotlib doesn't have. Thus, when Sage's matplotlib uses this setting I see an ImportError. > In the mailing list thread, the option was brought up to have the user > put in a command in their init.sage file if they wanted a custom Sage > initialization for matplotlib. Setting the MATPLOTLIBRC variable in the > init.sage file should work, I think. Yes, but I don't see this file in my .sage directory. Where would it be? > In reality, (I think) the people this affects are the people that have > already customized their system install of matplotlib. Those are the > people that (I think) would be capable of writing another command in > their init.sage or something to have Sage have a custom matplotlibrc file. Yes, for the most part I agree with this. But it is not quite that simple. I still need/want to be able to configure matplotlib for Sage and my own install separately. That means I have to copy my own matplotlibrc file into .sage, make edits and set variables in init.sage. > On the other hand, I can see the nice thing about Sage being totally > self-contained and not pulling settings from a user's home directory for > options. Yes, I think Sage should "Just Work", even for users that have matplotlib installed previously. This is simple enough to fix, I don't see why we wouldn't. The only thing is that the matplotlibrc file needs to be updated anytime that matplotlib itself is updated. Cheers, Brian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
