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). > > 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'll be happy to talk with David about it and see what can be done. That said: I think the benefit for Cython is less than it would appear at first glance, since Cython is next to useless without a C compiler and Python C extension compilation support. PythonXY update Cython regularily, so the usecase that seems to remain for an .exe is to update EPD. (If you got a C compiler working outside of a distro, odds are you're more comfortable installing Cython from the egg/zip/etc. anyway?) A Cython installer bundling MinGW and setting it up properly would be something though! Dag Sverre _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
