April 20, 2006
9 a.m.
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