[Pyrex] New Distutils implementation for Pyrex.

[Stefan Behnel]

Billy G. Allie wrote:
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> Billy G. Allie wrote:
>>
>>> I am re-implementing my PostgreSQL interface (pyPgSQL) using Pyrex to
>>> implement an extension for the libpq C-API.  When using the supplied
>>> build_ext, I notices that I had to have the .pxd files in the same
>>> directory as the source .pyx file.  Also, the generated c source file
>>> was placed in the same directory as the Pyrex source.  I also could not
>>> specify Pyrex options to create a listing file, etc.  I wanted to have
>>> the .pxd files in an separate include directory and I also did not want
>>> to clean up the generated files from the Pyrex source directory.  To
>>> correct these (minor) annoyances, I've implemented a new version of
>>> buld_ext.py and created a version of core.py and extension.py.
>>
>> is this an independent implementation or is it based on the old one? If the
>> latter, could you provide a patch against Cython and submit it at the
>> Cython
>> bug tracker? If it's new, could you still provide a single-file patch that
>> includes the new files?
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/cython
>>
>> http://www.cython.org
>>
>>
> I am attaching a diff generated by the 'diff -cbN <originale Distutils
> directory> <new Distutils directory>' command.
> I also changed all references to Pyrex to Cython and pyrex to cython in the
> files.
>
> I used the patched Distutils modules to successfully build my libpq
> extension (after I fixed some syntax errors that Pyrex missed :-(  )

Thanks a lot for the patches! I'm resending them to the Cython list for now.

You mentioned that you used distutils in Python 2.4 as a base. Python 2.3
compatibility is currently a requirement for Cython. Would you say there are
any 2.4 specifics in there?

Thanks again,
Stefan
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