[matplotlib-devel] Building documentation and matplotlibrc

2010-12-05 Thread Ben Gamari
This weekend I put a bit of time into bringing the Debian packaging[1] for the matplotlib 1.0 series up to date. In the tree it seems there is a matplotlibrc in the /doc directory. Judging from the documentation, it looks like matplotlib will first use a matplotlibrc in the current directory. This

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Matplotlib 1.0.1 release schedule (again)

2010-12-05 Thread Ben Gamari
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 14:01:26 -0600, John Hunter wrote: > I will try and get to the release ASAP and set the sample_data up this way... > Any news on this? A release would be very nice. I did the bulk of the work[1] to get the debian packaging working with the 1.0 series but I can't really do much

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Building documentation and matplotlibrc

2010-12-05 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Ben Gamari writes: > In practice, however, I have run into a few issues. First, the comment > regarding examples.directory indicates that this path must be > absolute. Is this really true? The comment is wrong: a relative path will work (I just tried this). > Secondly, it seems that the doc/ma

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Building documentation and matplotlibrc

2010-12-05 Thread Ben Gamari
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:03:02 +0200, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: > Ben Gamari > writes: > > > In practice, however, I have run into a few issues. First, the comment > > regarding examples.directory indicates that this path must be > > absolute. Is this really true? > > The comment is wrong: a rela

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Building documentation and matplotlibrc

2010-12-05 Thread John Hunter
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Ben Gamari 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