[Numpy-discussion] numpyx.pyx (recent svn) works?

[Travis E. Oliphant]

Fernando Perez wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Gael Varoquaux
> <gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 04:20:28PM -0700, Robert Kern wrote:
>>  > I'm not sure how it could. It's example code, not part of numpy itself.
>>
>>  OK, maybe I should keep my 2 cents. They appear to be forged money, and
>>  worth nothing.
>>
>>  :-).
>>     
>
> I *could* make it pyrex/cython-valid, it's trivial but just adds noise
> IMHO...  As Stefan said, pyrex is essentially unmaintained as far as
> publicly-visible development goes, while cython is very actively
> moving ahead and likely picking up better numpy support soon (thanks
> to Dag and other GSoC work), so why not just follow that?
>   
I say just add it.  We should move forward with Cython.   More important 
is to see if random actually builds with Cython right now.  There was an 
issue that I recall from a few weeks ago that Cython could not build the 
pyrex extension in NumPy.

-Travis