On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Manuel Nuno Melo <manuel.nuno.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello devs, > > I'm developing the setup.py for a scientific package, MDAnalysis (see PR > #799). We depend on distutils and setuptool. Namely, we use > setuptools.extension.Extension class for our extensions. > > Some older versions of setuptools (<18.0) do filename cythonization > themselves upon initialization of the Extension object. > > Because we want to control name cythonization ourselves I try to directly > use distutils.extension.Extension, which has none of setuptools' > cythonization. However, this doesn't work because setuptools patches > distutils, so that distutils.extension.Extension effectively becomes > setuptools.extension.Extension.
I'm wondering what it is specifically you need to do in your subclass--might it still be possible to do with a subclass of the setuptools Extension? Not saying I disagree with the overall idea, but I also wonder if there isn't a better way. Erik _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
