On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 15:39, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote: > >> Another option would be to not generate the high-res png and pdf >> examples. (Either or both). Just removing them after the fact won't >> work, since one would end up with broken links from the docs. We would >> also have to change the html to not include those links. It should be >> fairly simple to provide an option to the doc build system to do this, >> and I'm happy to implement that if we all agree that's the direction to >> take. > > This is fine with me. Just add an rc option > > doc.minimal_footprint > > or something like that which drops the high res and pdf. This will > prbably reduce the size 50-60%
yes yes please :) It would be really great to have it full pylab_examples: 53M pylab_examples no hires: 26M pylab_examples no hires and no pdf: 12M completely another story! ;) > I have also removed the mpl_data symlink in my doc tree, and am still > testing before I commit, because that is causing our binaries to get > much larger on platforms which do not properly support linking. > Instead, we'll refer explicitly to ../lib/matplotlib/mpl-data in the > docs. I am leaving the mpl_examples symlink because of all the > relative path woes in pyplot. Another patch I can remove as soon as another release is done :) > Other than simple optimizations like this, I am discinclined to try > and build smaller manuals simply to reduce their size. The feature Exactly the same goal I have in mind: I don't want to reduce the information, but only those parts that adds "little" to the end users while add a lot of space (if you get what I mean). > that caused the explosion in size between 98.3 and 98.5 is the > gallery, and image enhanced examples, which is arguably the most > useful feature on the site. And even as a local reference!! I had once to display dates and I was sure I've seen an example that did it, but I didn't remember which one, so I run all of them to find it. Now I would have to look up a nice page full of images: much better! Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
