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Much of this conflicts with #30291 and ft2font-shared_ptr; it wasn't merged for 3.11 because pybind11 v3 was deemed too new at the time.

Much of this conflicts with #30291 and ft2font-shared_ptr; it wasn't merged for 3.11 because pybind11 v3 was deemed too new at the time.

Would you be willing to rebase your tf2font-shared_ptr branch onto my PR branch? Afaik, you haven't made a PR from that shared_ptr branch yet

I do not know why the the AppVeyor stage is failing everywhere:

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/matplotlib/matplotlib/builds/54613753

Command exited with code 1
python tools/visualize_tests.py --no-browser
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\projects\matplotlib\tools\visualize_tests.py", line 160, in <module>
    run(show_browser=not args.no_browser)
  File "C:\projects\matplotlib\tools\visualize_tests.py", line 64, in run
    for name in os.listdir(image_dir)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'result_images'
Command exited with code 1

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