On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
I know this is a terrible and ugly hack, but the projects I work in have a 'fake_pyrex' directory, that fools setuptools into thinking that 'pyrex' is installed, and therefore prevents it from doing the .pyx -> .c filename conversions in the extension: https://github.com/regreg/regreg/blob/master/setup.py#L33 Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
