[Matplotlib-devel] Matplotlib minutes 2016-01-04

[Jens Nielsen]

Indeed we would like to build the docs with Python 3 see
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/5338
It's basically only hold back by link checker not being compatible. We
could run that with a different python version

Jens

On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 at 21:19 Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Jan 4, 2016 1:13 PM, "Michael Droettboom" <mdroettboom at continuum.io>
> wrote:
> >
> > In attendance: Thomas Caswell, Michael Droettboom, Eric Firing, Jens
> Nielsen
> >
> > - 1.5.1rc1 is out. (yay)  We missed a lot of Python 3 bugs that crept
> into the examples because we (a) don't build the docs on Py3 and (b) many
> examples don't run in docs build.  Running backend_driver.py before
> releases may help, as would running examples as smoke tests as part of
> regular test suite (though dependencies for everything on Travis may be
> tricky).
>
> Only somewhat related, but it might be time to consider switching to
> python 3 as the place where you build the docs, even.
>
> -n
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