[Pyrex] ANN: Pyrex 0.9.4 - LValue Casts are Dead!

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 01:07 PM 4/19/2006 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
>Andrew Straw wrote:
>
>>However, this seems completely unnecessary in the setup.py file --
>>setuptools will work fine as is, and apparently none of its features
>>need to be manually enabled. So there's no need for a patch.
>
>Okay, I'll disregard that part of the patch.

But I do hope you'll register a CheeseShop entry so people who do use 
setuptools can run easy_install without having to explicitly give your home 
page URL.


>>Although I'm not one of them (quite the opposite), there are people who
>>really dislike setuptools out there....
>
>I've just seen a post in python-dev which suggests that
>setuptools does some rather rude things to your existing
>installation,

What rude things?  If it's not something that I said, or the documentation 
says, or the source code says, I'd suggest taking it with a *very* large 
grain of salt.

In any case, if you're happy with distutils, there's really no reason to 
switch to setuptools.  Certainly you don't need to switch to make anybody 
else happy.  If you've got an adequate Cheeseshop entry and a setup.py that 
doesn't do any truly exotic extensions to the distutils, people who *do* 
use setuptools will be able to install Pyrex just fine.

Setuptools, by the way, has always included support for building extensions 
with Pyrex, and in fact includes code that dynamically fixes the Python 2.4 
argument problem on the fly if necessary.  So if fixing bugs is rude, 
setuptools is a right rude bastard.  :)

I haven't played with Pyrex 0.9.4 yet, though, so I don't know whether 
anything needs to be updated in setuptools for compatibility when building 
extensions in a setuptools-based package.  I should probably upgrade PEAK 
or PyProtocols or something to use Pyrex 0.9.4 and see if everything still 
works.