On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 3:19 PM, William Stein <wstein@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Jason Newton <nevion@gmail.com> wrote:
> You must realize that almost any other python driven way to compile c-code
> in the spirit these projects do is deprecated/dead. Cython has absorbed all
> the reputation and users that didn't go to pure-c/boost.python - pybind11 is
> the new kid on the block there so I'm not including it (I'm of the opinion
> that SWIG users stayed unchanged). Community belief/QA/designers/google all
> think of Cython first. Weave has effectively closed up it's doors [...]

May I ask why "any other python driven way to compile c-code in the
spirit these projects do is deprecated/dead?" I'm curious since
when I started Sage (and Cython based on forking Pyrex), it was
because none of the other approaches seemed like they would work for
the developer base I envisioned growing for Sage. That was a long
time ago, and I'm always pleasantly surprised that Cython has become
very popular. However, I didn't realize the other approaches were
deprecated/dead.

PyInline's last news update was in 2004 where the author gives a "Hats of[f] to PyRex", prior to that only a few blog entries in 2001/2002, I've not come across any project using it but maybe that is not sufficient to call it deprecated/dead? Does it work with Python 3? http://pyinline.sourceforge.net/

Pyrex no longer has a userbase. Last ML post was 2014.

Weave only supports python2, got ripped out of Scipy and also directs to check out Cython and strongly implies the project is all but dead/maintenance mode: https://github.com/scipy/weave

Did I miss any of the python driven ways?

-Jason