#6235: set MPLCONFIGDIR environment variable when Sage starts up
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Reporter: was | Owner: cwitty
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-4.6
Component: misc | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by leif):
Replying to [comment:12 jason]:
> At the same time, this directory should not be inside a specific Sage
installation (i.e., below SAGE_ROOT) since that means system-wide installs
can't have individual customizations, and it also breaks system-wide font
cache generation (i.e., matplotlib assumes that a user can update the font
cache file, I believe). So where are we now? Separate matplotlib config
directories for each version of Sage inside of the .sage directory?
I was thinking of that, too. Not that easy, though. (E.g. using the Sage
version as an "index" isn't reliable either.)
Is the font cache the only problem? If so, we could just delete it upon
every Sage [script] start-up... (quite ugly, of course)
But older versions of MPL should simply recognize config files from newer
versions and e.g. (partially) ignore them. Or at least print an
''appropriate'' error message. (Not very pythonic, I know. *SCNR*)
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