[Pyrex] temporary fork of Pyrex

[Elias Pschernig]

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 14:57 +0100, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> First of all, Pyrex is incredibly useful and it made lxml possible. 
> Unfortunately it doesn't work for us out of the box, especially with gcc 
> 4.0 on Mac OS X.
> 
> The gcc 4 patch goes beyond what's available in the latest Pyrex 
> release. I believe some linux distributions like Ubuntu include it, and 
> we've submitted it repeatedly over a period of months, but it still 
> isn't in Pyrex proper. Because we want to serve the lxml users we were 
> forced to start maintaining a Pyrex fork.
> 
> Our Pyrex fork is here:
> 
> http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/pyrex/
> 
> Some discussion of our patches is here:
> 
> http://codespeak.net/lxml/installation.html (gcc 4 section)
> 
> and here:
> 
> http://codespeak.net/pipermail/lxml-dev/2006-March/000954.html
> 
> We hope this fork can go away again as soon as possible.
> 

Here's more gcc 4 related patches, they merely fix warnings though.
Still, would be nice to have a version with them applied - maybe the
inofficial fork is a good place? (I didn't check if warnings are fixed
there already..)

http://lists.copyleft.no/pipermail/pyrex/2005-October/001452.html
http://lists.copyleft.no/pipermail/pyrex/2005-October/001453.html

And this attempt by me at silencing even more warnings, probably should
be applied with care:
http://lists.copyleft.no/pipermail/pyrex/2005-December/001579.html

-- 
Elias Pschernig