Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib v1.1.1 (bugfix) rc1 on Thursday

[Derek H. <de...@as...>]

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?

Cheers,
						Derek