Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl release candidate branch

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@de...> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 18:30, Sandro Tosi <mo...@de...> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 18:23, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Working through the checklist, I am wary of cutting an RC at this
> particular
> >>> moment.
> >
> > It was announced here:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28136691
> >
> > I'm testing the debian package and I'll follow up with my thoughts on
> > it when done.
>
> Ok, so here they are:
>
> - what's the difference between examples/ and lib/mpl_examples/ dirs?
> diff says they are identical, but maybe there's a reason there are 2
> copies of them. If not, maybe you can remove one, so to reduce
> confusion :)
>

lib/mpl_examples/ is a symbolic link to examples.  It is there because of
issues with sphinx doc generation.


> - the tarball has grown a lot in size, ~3 times, but in the changelog
> there's no mention of the reason of this growth (baseline images for
> testing)
>

Hmm, I tried my best to clean up the source tree after testing, but maybe I
missed something?


> - the doc generation stops at thumbnails regen, it seems 'thumbnails'
> dict is empty and so it stucks there.
>
>
And maybe I got rid of something I shouldn't have?

Ben Root