Re: [matplotlib-devel] Add some caching to texmanager.py?

[Stephen W. <ste...@cs...>]

John Hunter wrote:

>We might have to do something like
>
>  os.popen('export TEXMFOUTPUT=/some/path; run some command')
>
>and then deal with platform and shell dependent differences in how to
>set environment variables.  Is there a better way?  Me thinks it is
>better to make this a FAQ and advise people working in non-writable
>dirs to set this var themselves.
>
I agree with this last.  On Unix, you could do

os.popen('/bin/sh -c "export TEXMFOUTPUT=/some/path; run some command"')

and be pretty sure it would work on all systems.  But Windows would be a 
pain.  I agree with the FAQ solution.  This seems like a very rare 
problem to me, to be honest.