Re: [matplotlib-devel] Building documentation and matplotlibrc

[Sandro T. <mo...@de...>]

Hi John,

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 20:57, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> 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.

Just to be sure: this patch is *not* in the released 1.0.1 tarball
(and it will be included in the next released version), is that
correct?

Anyhow, with a bit of hackery in our building process, I'm able to
prepare Debian packages without download anything from the net: thanks
a lot for your support throughout all the process!!

Cheers,
-- 
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