Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: matplotlibrc generation

[Norbert N. <Nor...@gm...>]

John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> writes:
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>     Eric> 1) generate matplotlibrc with almost everything commented
>     Eric> out by default
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> +2
>
> Hopefully, this will address the problem of all the deprecated rc
> warnings people are getting, which is confusing to new users.
>   
As you saw, I boldly implemented that change already.

>     Eric> 2) eliminate matplotlibrc.template by having setup.py
>     Eric> autogenerate matplotlibrc based on the rcParams-related code
>     Eric> that is presently in __init__.py.
>
> working code tested across platforms and python versions settles this.
> It is mostly working now, but Norbert brings up a good point that if
> we now go to mostly empty rc files, it will become increasingly
> unlikely that the template gets out of whack.  If this is important to
> someone and they can come up with a good implementation, I don't have
> a problem with it.
>   
I already started working on this. Don't know when I find the time to
finish, but I will post patches for testing as soon as I have something
clean enough.

Greetings,
Norbert