[Pyrex] New Distutils implementation for Pyrex.

Billy G. Allie bill.allie at defiant.mug.org
Sat Aug 4 05:50:25 CEST 2007


Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Billy G. Allie wrote:
>   
>> I've implesmentd a new version of
>> buld_ext.py and created a version of core.py and extension.py.
>>     
>
> first thing I noticed when running a patched Cython: setuptools break. They
> already patch into distutils, so the patching in your code doesn't work. I
> would prefer doing without changes to core.py and extensions.py. AFAICT, this
> removes the support for configuring import directories at the Extension level.
>
> Alternatively, we could also import things from setuptools first and only fall
> back to distutils. However, this would bug people who have setuptools
> installed and want to build with distutils (for whatever reason, don't know
> how common that is).
>
> I'll take a deeper look into this.
>
> Stefa
By the way, didn't the package name change from Pyrex to Cython break 
setuptools? (It would in the version of setuptools I installed).
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