Hi all, seeing that Cython's latest release has brought it a major step forwards, I wonder if it isn't time to knock at python-dev and ask for making Cython an integral part of CPython's standard library. This has actually been a project goal since the beginning, but in an active project, it's always hard to find a point where something's really "ready enough" for inclusion.
My feeling is that it would be great to have Cython in the stdlib rather sooner than later, even if there will be further enhancements and optimisations being added to Cython outside of CPython. I think the core non-Python parts of the language are pretty stable by now. Having it in would make it a lot easier for people to depend on Cython being available on the user side, it would lead to a better integration of Cython into CPython as a general purpose Python code compiler, and it would allow CPython's core and stdlib developers to write their modules in Cython rather than C, which would make them a lot more accessible for normal Python users. And it would certainly underline the great match that CPython and Cython represent. What do the others think? Should we ask on python-dev, and then target Cython 0.12 (or maybe really 0.13) as a release for the stlib? Stefan _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
