On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > > Jason Grout wrote: >> >> Well, there is something to be said for what you said. We ship our own >> version of matplotlib, which mostly likely is different than the system >> install. That means that their perfectly good default matplotlibrc file >> might cause deprecation warnings for us. For that reason, I think we >> should still set the MATPLOTLIBRC environment variable to point to a >> location within $DOT_SAGE. >> >> For that reason, how about yet another proposal: >> >> Add a warnings handler which traps the Matplotlib deprecation >> warning. This handler will compare the matplotlibrc with the one that >> was distributed in the last release (maybe by checking a hash value). >> If it is identical (i.e., the user hasn't modified the matplotlibrc), >> then *delete* the matplotlibrc. This is a >> bit tricky, since the sage default matplotlibrc is not under version >> control (it's in $SAGE_ROOT), so we don't know what older copies looked >> like. (hehe...yet another reason to really like mabshoff for the >> library of old builds). If the file is not identical to the current >> sage default matplotlibrc, then throw a warning with a helpful error >> message about updating the matplotlibrc (and where to find the file). > > > I should note that the file we would be deleting lives in $DOT_SAGE, and > so should not affect the user's other usage of matplotlib outside of Sage.
I'm just going to make a call on this, so that the new matplotlib gets into Sage ASAP. Jason's original proposal is: "So here's a proposal: Should Sage stop distributing a custom matplotlibrc, and ignore matplotlibrc files that already exist in the $DOT_SAGE directories?" After the above discussion, and responses to my concerns about this, I say we do exactly what Jason originally proposed. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
