On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Robert Kern<[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Good points. Dag and I talked about packaging fwrap separately once it stabilizes. Perhaps we should just make it its own package from the start. This would alleviate the licensing issues and 'core Cython' could be pure Apache (presuming Pearu doesn't want to relicense fparser for fwrap under Apache). Thoughts? > > -- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Cython-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev > _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
