Re: [matplotlib-devel] Website needs love

[Ben G. <bga...@gm...>]

On Mon, 23 May 2011 09:35:57 -0400, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
> 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.
> 
Given this seems to be one of the longer stages of the build process,
I'd appreciate if if we identified and fixed the underlying problem and
not simply sweep it under the rug.

- Ben