On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:17 PM, David Cournapeau <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Our problems would be highly reduced if setuptools knew about Cython, >> simply by doing "have_cython_or_pyrex" instead of "have_pyrex", same >> for distutils. If one of the core developers can push for that simply >> acceptance, then wonderful. > > FWIW, that's exactly what's broken in distutils. The very fact that > setuptools needs to know about cython *is* the issue. Because later, > you will have issue because of distribute instead of setuptools, and > then distutils2, and who knows.
Hence http://wiki.cython.org/enhancements/distutils_preprocessing . Of course having setuptools know about Cython would be a simple step forward--is the maintainer likely to take a patch? - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
