[Pyrex] Cython development

[Arc Riley]

We'll see how the next release goes with just the original sources.

Keep in mind SAGE's user base is undoubtedly going to be radically different
from ours, which are mostly teenagers and young adults.

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:28 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Greg Ewing wrote:
> > Arc Riley wrote:
> >> We've received at least a dozen complaints ...
> >  > that we haven't actually complied with
> >> the GPL's requirements in the "source" release since the .c sources are
> >> not what is intended to be modified
> >
> > For GPL compliance, you just need to release the .pyx files as
> > well -- perhaps in a separate download, if you want to keep
> > the size down for people only wanting to install.
>
> At least for Cython, the C code size really dominates the Cython code size
> by
> quite a bit. And since tar balls are usually well compressed, I don't
> really
> see much use in separating the two. But shipping with the .c files has
> definitely helped our users, so there's no way around that.
>
> Stefan
>
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