[Pyrex] SageX merged back to Pyrex?

[William Stein]

On 7/25/07, Andreas Kostyrka <andreas at kostyrka.org> wrote:
> Well, it's the usual situation with non mainstream upstream providers. Lucky for you, pyrex is open source. :)
>
> Basically, you can choose one of these, I'd personally choose SageX (as they seem to be most active). As a worst case fallback the worst that can happen to you is that you'll start to maintain an internal fork. There are version management tools today that make this kind of stuff bearable.
>
> btw, that's not an unique situation with Pyrex, it's rather general to all software, more or less. (And if you believe that a commercial producer will protect your investement in some tool, VB6 comes to mind *eg*)

I've posted an official page for cython here:

   http://cython.org/

I only spent about 45 minutes on it just now, so don't expect too much.
Mainly it has a project statement, a normal tarball for download (that
one can install with "python setup.py install"), and a very short faq.
I'll add more later.  I'm just going to call Cython "a derivative of
Pyrex", sort of like various Linux distros are derivatives of Debian,
since it doesn't really feel like a fork in the sense that there are
no hard feelings or disagreements -- it's just that I want to make easily
available a more feature rich version of Pyrex.

 -- William