Oct. 3, 2009
11:22 p.m.
On 3-Oct-09, at 7:54 PM, Stéfan van der Walt wrote:
Like Damian mentioned, we had a discussion on this at the sprint and decided that Cython is a good way to go for optimising extensions. I am a bit allergic to C++ (especially given the compiler mess it has caused in SciPy), so unless we have a very good reason I'd prefer to stick to C.
It should be noted that Cython needn't be a *dependency*, as such. Release tarballs can include the generated C files and thus not require Cython to build. I think this is ideal to make it easy to build from source but not tether developers to writing in raw C all the time. David