[Python-Dev] Raising objections (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Apr 20 11:00:36 CEST 2006

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

If they have Pyrex installed, setuptools uses Pyrex to rebuild the .c from the .pyx.

I hope it would only do this if the .pyx was newer than the .c. It's probably not a good idea to assume that just because Pyrex is around, the user wants to use it in all cases. He might be installing a package distributed by someone with a different version of Pyrex that wasn't quite compatible. If he's not modifying the .pyx files, it would be safer to just use the provided .c files.

-- Greg

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