On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@de...> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 20:31, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@de...> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 19:48, Sandro Tosi <mo...@de...> wrote: >>> > ehm... no, I'm testing it the rc + your patch, sorry :) I'm updating >>> > my local svn copy and try again >>> >>> Ok, I'm trying with trunk now (or those changes are on another >>> branch?), and it stops at >> >> >> We're working in the release branch. Changes have not been made to trunk. >> >> svn co https://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/matplotlib/branches/v1_0_maint >> mpl1 > > I tried with that branch, but I had no luck :( it still tries to > download stuff from the net, whatever I set as examples.directory in > matplotlibrc (yes, I'm trying to compile inside doc/ and I have > 'examples.download : False' set) and/or MATPLOTLIB_SAMPLE_DATA . JFTR > the cmdline I'm using is: > > morph@zion:~/deb/upstream_checkout/mpl1/doc$ > MATPLOTLIB_SAMPLE_DATA=/home/morph/deb/upstream_checkout/mpl1/sampledata/ > MATPLOTLIBDATA=../lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/ > PYTHONPATH=../build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/ ./make.py --small all > > $ tail -2 matplotlibrc > examples.download : False # False to bypass downloading mechanism > examples.directory : /home/morph/deb/upstream_checkout/mpl1/sampledata/ OK, I found the problem. Somehow my edit to sphinxext.plot_directive to actually call the new function was not saved and committed. I just fixed this, so the branch *should* work. The branch matlpotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py should call rc_file_defaults rather than rcdefaults. After an svn up, confirm that this is so before testing. JDH