Re: [matplotlib-devel] Website needs love

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

On 05/22/2011 05:33 PM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha... 
> <mailto:ef...@ha...>> wrote:
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>     On 05/22/2011 10:07 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
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>     > I went ahead with the merge conflict procedure, and everything
>     appear to
>     > be ok.  I had also noticed a few additional mistakes in the
>     INSTALL file
>     > currently in v1.0.x that I fixed as well.  I will double-check the
>     > commit/merge before pushing it up.
>     >
>     > I also noticed that the INSTALL doc on v1.0.x provided an equivalent
>     > command of `apt-get build-dep` for Fedora/RedHat users.  I
>     believe this
>     > information should also be included in the install_faq.rst document
>     > (because it only has the debian version).  I will make that a
>     separate
>     > commit.
>     >
>     > Ben Root
>
>     Ben, a quick look at installing_faq.rst shows some anachronisms:
>     references to installing obsolete versions.  This is another worm
>     barrel.  Those anachronisms are not the only problems with the
>     file--or
>     with installation in general.
>
>     Eric
>
>
> I'll double-check for that.  Note that I am merely moving my changes 
> over to INSTALL, so whatever INSTALL has should be the final version.  
> Below is the current diff between them.
>
> On a separate note, I think there might be some unspecified 
> requirements for building the documentation.  On my newly set up 
> Ubuntu machine, the build gets to the thumbnails stage and recognizes 
> that I have no thumbnails, and then the process goes to sleep.  Maybe 
> we have an error check missing somewhere?
Generating the thumbnails has no additional requirements (it uses 
matplotlib's image module to scale the images).  However, it may be a 
problem with multiprocessing -- the thumbnails are generated in parallel 
on multi-core machines.  I haven't had problems myself, but it seems 
multiprocessing doesn't always work in certain environments.

Can you do me a favor?  Can you edit gen_gallery.py and replace the line 
beginning with "pool.map" to just "map" and let me know if that resolves 
this issue?  If it does, perhaps we should not use multiprocessing here.

Mike

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Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland, USA