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Sorry to the Benjamin Drung, Scott Kitterman, and Sandro Tosi for not
including you in this thread earlier. I am trying to bring the
matplotlib 1.0.1 packaging into compliance with the debian packaging
requirements.
Unfortunately, matplotlib now includes out-of-tree sample data which is
downloaded during the documentation build process. To avoid this we need
to override a setting in matplotlibrc during the documentation build and
package these data in a separate source tarball. Most of this work has
been done (see my PPA[1]) but unfortunately the configuration changes
are non-trivial.
On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 17:16:44 -0600, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Ben Gamari <bga...@gm...> wrote:
> >> I am not intimately familiar with the doc build system, but the way that
> >> the "html" function in make.py copies matplotlibrc from mpl-data to
> >> _static, I suspect that it is trying to ensure that that particular file
> >> is used.
> >>
> > Anyone else have further guidance?
> 
> No, that is there so that the link from the customizing page
> 
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/customizing.html
> 
> to the "download matplotlibrc" link
> 
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/_static/matplotlibrc
> 
> works and gives an update matplotlibrc. It is not used in the doc
> build to customize the settings of the docs. The files in _static are
> just copied up to the web server but can be linked to from withing
> rest.
> 
I'm glad to hear that this file isn't used. This should make packaging
much easier.
That being said, I've tracked down the reason for the configuration in
doc/matplotlibrc not being used. It seems that sphinx runs the examples
in their current directory (I suppose this is to be expected).
It seems that there is a (as far as I can tell undocumented, please fix
this) MATPLOTLIBRC environment variable which can be used to override
the location of the matplotlibrc used. This could be useful in
specifying the matplotlibrc used during the documentation build process
but unfortunately this would require an absolute path which, again,
complicates the packaging (i.e. I don't know the best way to accomplish
this). Suggestions?
Thanks,
- Ben
[1] https://launchpad.net/~bgamari/+archive/matplotlib-unofficial

This command in the make.osx file:
python2.7 -c 'import urllib; urllib.urlretrieve("
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng-stable/1.2.39/libpng-1.2.39.tar.gz/download",
"libpng-1.2.39.tar.gz")'
returns a bunch of html.
I'm not sure what the new URL is, but it should be a simple fix.
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