Re: [matplotlib-devel] Building documentation and matplotlibrc

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@de...> wrote:

>  > +def rc_file_defaults():
> > +    """
> > +    Restore the default rc params from the original matplotlib rc that
> > +    was loaded
> > +    """
> > +    rcParams.update(rcParamsOrig)
> > +
> >  _use_error_msg = """ This call to matplotlib.use() has no effect
> >  because the the backend has already been chosen;
> >  matplotlib.use() must be called *before* pylab, matplotlib.pyplot,
>
>
> I take the patch is not complete, right? because naively applying it
> in a just-untarred source code + configuring doc/matplotlibrc don't
> work (ie keeps trying accessing the net)
>
>

Well, that is the default behavior.  You still have to untar, and set the
examples.directory rc parameter as Ben discussed to do a no download doc
build.  So you'll want to patch doc/matplotlibrc to set this param.


JDH