On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:48 AM, Fernando Perez wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Robert
> Bradshaw<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yes, that's very nice. (My preferred way to distribute cython is via
>> Sage, but that doesn't work well for windows users yet.:-)
>
> There's also the fact that Cython can be of interest to many people
> who might want to use it as a standalone tool in their own projects on
> top of their normal Python  toolchain, thus for whom Sage may be too
> large a dependency (even if it was native for windows).

For sure! (My emoticon was supposed to apply to the entire  
parenthetical statement--as much as I'd like to plug Sage, Cython has  
a much wider potential audience.)

> Providing self-contained native windows installers is always a big
> plus for a project in terms of  gaining acceptance, even if it  is
> already packaged as part of some other toolchain (say Sage, EPD or
> PythonXY for example, all  of which ship Cython).

I totally agree.

> In any case, keep up the good work!  I look forward to Dag's
> presentation,  and I hope you'll be able to make it next year to Scipy
> :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> f
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