On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > David Cournapeau, 30.07.2011 10:52: >> >> Python 2.4 is still surprisingly >> common. Working around it for C extensions can be pretty daunting. > > The same applies to Cython, obviously, although I do see the advantage of > doing it in one place, and specifically in Cython, instead of dropping it on > the users.
I was not very clear: I meant that if you were to use python 2.5 or above on a platform where only 2.4 is available, you would need to build a lot of C extensions by yourself, which is out of reach to the vast majority of our users. Typically, I had to use centos 5.x 2 years ago, and even for me, it was quite difficult to build a python 2.6 environment I was comfortable with (keeping in mind that a lot of "big-lab environments" do not give you admin access). Centos 5.x end of life is in 2014. cheers, David _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
