Phil Elson

Came up in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54192575/matplotlib-circle-patch-does-not-have-smooth-edges. I've been working on a Path interpolator that would allow us to fine-tune the path as we zoom in (in matplotlib). Might prove to be a...

> Could this be built into the iris interpolation routines to save the overhead of these two seperate calls? Yes - that would be excellent. Though I'm a little uncertain...

Thanks for all this context - really valuable! > If the thread ends and it wasn’t detached, then it becomes a memory leak. The prevent shutdown can be changed by...

> I think the port of confusion is the any thread “other than main” is attached as daemon automatically In the example above, I was able to see a different...

I was just writing some tests for this, and was doing so via a subprocess. Turns out that the behaviour changes if it is forked vs spawned: ``` def main():...

> I believe it was mentiined somewhere in the docs that the JVM does not handle fork well. Yes, at https://github.com/jpype-project/jpype/blob/b603ff6ca6d58927262a202de83583a282924f2c/doc/userguide.rst#L2735 ("JPype cannot be used with processes created with ``fork``"),...

Sounds very similar to https://github.com/jpype-project/jpype/issues/934. It has been a while since I last looked at that issue, and since then https://github.com/jpype-project/jpype/pull/937 has been merged. In principle, I think at least...

Thanks for all the details. From my perspective, as I already hinted at in my last comment, I'm quite strongly against the idea of a new JPype Python executable (``jpython``)...

> @pelson, we are struggling a bit (okay, a lot!) here to support windows users. > And also so great if we didn't have to install 32 and 64 windows...

How about putting the functionality in a chain-able method? ``` new_cycler = cycler.concat(another_cycler) ``` The operator question can then be delayed a bit, without loss of functionality... (note I wrote...