Re: [matplotlib-devel] Building documentation and matplotlibrc

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

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
> Ah, all the more reason to apply abspath() or realpath().  To decide which
> to use, let's consider the case of someone (like a developer) having
> multiple builds of matplotlib in separate directories, and uses a symlink to
> point to whichever he wants to use at the moment.
>
> The question is, in this use-case, would we want the symbolic link pathname,
> or the absolute pathname?  I don't mess around with docs  enough to know
> which I would want.
>
> I have attached a modified patch (which uses realpath(), but could easily be
> changed to abspath()).  I also included some comments to more fully document
> what is going on and the rational for the logic being taken.

OK, I incorporated your changes and committed.  Thanks.

> P.S. - Just to make sure,  I noticed that rcParamsOrig is only in the
> maintenance branch.  It was intended to leave the development branch
> "broken" for now until we get this working properly?

That's correct, but I just did a big merge of all the branch changes
so the trunk is fixed as well now.

JDH