[SciPy-Dev] New subpackage: scipy.data

[Pauli Virtanen]

la, 2018-04-28 kello 22:58 -0700, Ralf Gommers kirjoitti:
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> > The biggest subpackage is sparse, and there most of the space is
> > taken by _
> > sparsetools.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so According to size -A
> > -d, the
> > biggest sections are debug. The same goes for the second biggest,
> > special.
> > Can it run without those sections? On preliminary checks, it seems
> > that
> > stripping .debug_info and .debug_loc trim down the size from 38 to
> > 3.7 MB,
> > and the test suite still passes.
> > 
> 
> Should work. That's a lot more gain than I'd realized. Given that we
> hardly
> ever get useful gdb tracebacks, it may be worth considering doing
> that for
> releases.

I thought we already enabled stripping debug symbols for 1.1.0rc1,
https://github.com/MacPython/scipy-wheels/pull/26
but this indeed doesn't seem to be the case.

There's still time to fix it for 1.1.0 if we figure it out soon.

	Pauli