MNT: put inkscape history/config files in temp working directory

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit c4cbee0f5c34 · 2022-04-06T09:27:52.000-04:00
Inkscape will fail to create directories in /dev/null, be very unhappy
about this, and fail to convent all of the svg.
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/testing/compare.py b/lib/matplotlib/testing/compare.py
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ def __call__(self, orig, dest):
             env = {
                 **os.environ,
                 # Do not load any user options.
-                "INKSCAPE_PROFILE_DIR": os.devnull,
+                "INKSCAPE_PROFILE_DIR": self._tmpdir.name,
             }
             # Old versions of Inkscape (e.g. 0.48.3.1) seem to sometimes
             # deadlock when stderr is redirected to a pipe, so we redirect it

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ def __call__(self, orig, dest):`
`155`	`155`	`env = {`
`156`	`156`	`**os.environ,`
`157`	`157`	`# Do not load any user options.`
`158`		`- "INKSCAPE_PROFILE_DIR": os.devnull,`
	`158`	`+ "INKSCAPE_PROFILE_DIR": self._tmpdir.name,`
`159`	`159`	`}`
`160`	`160`	`# Old versions of Inkscape (e.g. 0.48.3.1) seem to sometimes`
`161`	`161`	`# deadlock when stderr is redirected to a pipe, so we redirect it`