On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 4:44 PM Nathan Dunfield <nat...@dunfield.info> wrote:
>>
>> It's bad packaging by upstream: it's running Cython but the Cython
>> source files are not in the snappy source tarball.
>
>
> Yes, we ship the Cython generated C/C++ files rather than Cython code itself. 
>  My understanding from the Cython docs is that this is the recommended 
> approach for non-Sage packages, and we have always done this.

Really? Could you point out the place in the docs that recommends this?
Letting Cython to do necessary adjustments for the target C/C++
compiler seems like the most natural thing to do...

> But apparently we accidentally introduced a bug in the setup.py script in 
> SnapPy 2.6 that is causing it to look for the Cython files anyway...
>
> Nathan
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