On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 05:13:43PM -0800, Marek Szuba wrote: -> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:45:24 -0800 -> "C. Titus Brown" <[email protected]> wrote: -> -> > Reviewed, tested on multiple platforms, appropriately extracted into a -> > patch, and nominated for inclusion: -> While I generally agree this is great work, there is one issue I would -> like to raise before the patches are incorporated into the master -> branch - it seems the update simultaneously forces Pyrex version to be -> at least 0.9.8. -> -> Given most major Linux/Unix distributions do not feature this version -> in their repositories yet (a quick search using Google has yielded the -> following: -> - Debian "lenny" / Ubuntu "intrepid" - 0.9.7; -> - Red Hat Enterprise 5 - 0.9.6; -> - Gentoo - features 0.9.8 but only with "testing" flag set, latest -> stable is 0.9.4; -> - FreeBSD - 0.9.8 is in ports) -> - Fedora 10 - the first release to offer 0.9.8; -> - OpenBSD 4.4 - first release to offer 0.9.8; -> etc.), I strongly suggest we should bear with problems with older Pyrex -> versions for some more time. -> -> Istvan, would you be able to disentangle the two issues?
Marek, I thought about this, and my conclusion was that it did not matter for users. First, we can (and should) release either pyx-compiled C code OR binaries. I don't think we should expect users to have a full dev environment. Second, Pyrex is continually being improved; there were reasonably annoying bugs that we've had to work around in pygr because of Pyrex problems just in the last year. Therefore I would prefer to give people something compiled with the latest version of Pyrex rather than expect pygr to work properly under any recent version of Pyrex. Another problem that I didn't mention, though, is that the patch requires 2.4. I think this is reasonable but it is a change that was not explicitly agreed upon. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pygr-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pygr-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
