Re: [matplotlib-devel] 0.98.5 - Doc building question on matplotlibrc

[Sandro T. <mat...@gm...>]

Hello,

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 17:07, Darren Dale <dsd...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@de...> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> while preparing the debian package update for 0.98.5 I went thru a
>> problem: we remove doc/mpl_data/matplotlibrc because it will be
>> modified (to change backend (that now is set to MacOSX in the tarball
>> distributed..?)) and up to now it wasn't used.
>>
>> Now, doc/make.py fails because of
>>
>>  shutil.copy('mpl_data/matplotlibrc', '_static/matplotlibrc')
>>
>> So, can we use another 'matplotlibrc' file or the one in doc/mpl_data
>> has something specific to doc and needs to maintained?
>
> The default matplotlibrc file in mpl-data/ is created by setup.py during the
> build process. The default backend is selected according to which gui
> toolkits are available, and defaults to Agg if no supported toolkit is
> available. setup.py only selects the macosx backend if the build is being
> performed on a macosx system. The source tarball is apparently prepared on a
> Mac, but I dont think it matters that the source dist contains this
> platform-specific backend, since the file will be overwritten with more
> appropriate settings anyway when you run setup.py build.
>
> It would really be best to not remove the file that is created as a result
> of running setup.py build. The mpl documentation suggests users to copy this
> file into their ~/.matplotlib/ or wherever if they want to modify the
> default properties, and it contains some documentation for each of the
> settings.
>
> On the other hand, if you are running setup.py build and the resulting
> matplotlibrc file still says the default backend is macosx, and you are not
> running macosx, and you have configured setup.cfg to set some other default
> backend, then it is a bug that needs to be fixed.

Well, what I'm actually asking is: can I use any matplotlibrc file (be
it from any location in the tarball or forged during build process) or
the one in doc/mpl_data has something specific to documentation that
needs to be preserved.

Don't worry, we ship matplotlibrc file (the one built), but I need to
know if that particular one has something ad-hoc for doc.

Thanks,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu)
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