On 2009-08-14 11:37 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:

> As for fparser, I think we can keep PSF out of it for now:
>
> fwrap depends on Cython and fparser, but Cython itself will never depend
> on either
>
> At least for the time being it's more a matter of shipping fparser and
> fwrap with the default Cython download (in the Tools dir). I can
> definitely see Cython itself being included into Python's stdlib without
> fwrap following along (as nobody outside of science use Fortran anyway).

Hmmm. Are you sure you don't just want to distribute fwrap as a separate 
project, then? Personally, I will always prefer a second package over an 
optional component. If I had a project that used fwrap to build, I would want 
my 
prerequisite installation instructions to be this:

   1. Install Cython. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cython
   2. Install fwrap. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fwrap

rather than this:

   1. Download the source tarball of Cython. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cython
   2. Install Cython using "python setup.py install"
   3. cd Tools/fwrap/
   4. Install fwrap using "python setup.py install"

With the latter, there will inevitably be some Linux distribution that will put 
both Cython and fwrap into their python-cython package and some who won't.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco

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