[Pyrex] New Distutils implementation for Pyrex.

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:44 PM 8/5/2007 -0400, Billy G. Allie wrote:
>If you want to give new options to extension you need to subclass
>entension.py.

And then just use those classes in your setup.py.  You don't need to 
patch setuptools for that.


>  If you want to have those new options available as command
>line options (to setup.py), you need to wrap core.py (it can't be
>sub-classed).

Why do you need options to setup.py instead of just options to the 
build_ext command?


>  My new Distutils for Pyrex does both. In order for
>setuptools to compile pyrex extension (.pyx), it needs to use
>Pyrex.Distutils.core instead of distutils.core. If you don't, just
>loading build_ext will fail because of undefined extension variables.

Per the above, none of this should be necessary.