On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:33 AM, Fernando Perez wrote: > Hi Dag, > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Dag Sverre > Seljebotn<[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi cython-dev, >> >> Fernando Perez wrote: >>> >>> Hi Dag, >>> >>> Dave Cournapeau kindly made for us win32 installers of the newest >>> cython, since you guys don't have them on your site: >>> >>> https://cirl.berkeley.edu/fperez/tmp/Cython-0.11.2.win32-py2.5.exe >>> https://cirl.berkeley.edu/fperez/tmp/Cython-0.11.2.win32-py2.6.exe >> >> Great, thanks! >> >> Is there somebody on the list who could more easily than myself >> give these a >> test ride? >> >> (In addition to running the installer, a C compiler must be set up >> properly, >> see >> >> wiki.cython.org/Installation >> >> and the link to Windows installation there. An alternative to >> creating >> distutils.cfg (for mingw) is to pass "-c mingw" to setup.py.) > > I just tested this on top of a bare EPD install, and once I commented > out the old cython egg path from the easy-install.pth file, it worked > just fine. So tomorrow I'll publicize it to the attendees. > >> I'll take this opportunity to come with a request: If somebody >> with easy >> access to Windows would like to be responsible for Windows >> packaging of >> Cython that would be great (as none of the core devs run Windows) >> -- it >> seems that David Cournapeau has already done the dirty work, so >> that it >> would likely just be about running his scripts for every Cython >> release and >> test that things work properly. > > By the way, David did this on a wine setup he has on his Mac laptop in > just a couple of minutes! So it seems that once you have the right > setup, it's not a huge deal. Dag, since you'll get to meet David next > week at scipy, perhaps you can get this set up as well so any of you > can pump these out easily at release time, without needing a windows > box (it can apparently be done on either Macs or linux, though I have > yet to do it myself). > > In any case, thanks again to David C for his help with this!
Yes, that's very nice. (My preferred way to distribute cython is via Sage, but that doesn't work well for windows users yet.:-) - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
