On Mar 26, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Derek Homeier
<de...@astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
> Hi Sandro,
>
>> yes, Debian has a separate package for documentation (since it
>> requires to be build just on time, whilc mpl requires to be built on
>> each architecture we support, so splitting the package results in a
>> lot of saved space). JFYR this is the layout of packages in Debian:
>>
>> python-matplotlib - the python module
>> python-matplotlib-data - mpl-data dir + sampeldata + config files + nib +
>> fonts
>> python-matplotlib-dbg - debug symbols for python extensions
>> python-matplotlib-doc - all the built doc, in html and pdf formats
>
> thanks for the info; currently fink only has extra packages for the basemap
> toolkit.
> While there are not that many actual architectures, there are still up to 4
> or 5
> Python versions to support, so a single doc package could also save a lot
> (although I am not sure how to setup such a build yet…).
> The actual matplotlib module could also be reduced much further in size when
> building from the _notests tar ball. I am not sure how much demand there is
> for normal users to be able to run the complete test suite. Or is this just a
> temporary option for the rc builds anyway?
>
I have also been uploading a "notests" tarball for those who do not want to
carry the extra weight of the baseline test images.
For packagers concerned about size, one option would be to provide just the
baseline images as a separate package. These are all the PNGs recursively
under lib/matplotlib/tests.
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