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Improve how PyGMT loads the GMT library #867

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A few thoughts on the design of loading the library as a whole (might be out of scope for this PR but worth mentioning):

  • I initially made the Session class load the library when it's used to avoid doing this work at import time. Mostly so we wouldn't have GMTLibNotFoundError at import.
  • That clearly didn't work because we need to call begin at import for this whole thing to work.
  • So it might be time to rethink loading libgmt in the class instead of as a global instead to avoid searching for it every time.
  • Or we figure out a way to not call begin at import time.

Originally posted by @leouieda in #702 (comment)

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