It's only to build the automatically generated API docs for `plotting.py`.


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Kurt Smith <notifications@github.com>wrote:

> In .travis.yml:
>
> > @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ before_install:
> >      - pip install numpy
> >      - pip install pyzmq --install-option="--zmq=bundled"
> >      - pip install ipython
> > +    - pip install matplotlib
>
> Is it unavoidable that we have to install matplotlib for the docs to
> build? It looks like it adds several minutes to the build time, and since
> the plots can't be visually verified anyway, the cost / benefit ratio does
> not seem favorable.
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