On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 03:30:37AM -0700, Nathann Cohen wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody !!!
> 
> I have a small problem I discussed with some of you on IRC already.
> 
> I have written a Cython class which should one day be integrated into
> the standard version of SAGE : an interface for numerical solvers of
> linear programs. Some of these solvers, though, are optional SPKG
> ( but most of the people using this class will probably install
> them ), and I also wrote their interfaces in Cython. I would like my
> first standard class to be compiled according to the available
> solver's libraries, and I see no way of doing it.

I think a clean way to do this would be to package the Cython wrapper
for the optional SPKG inside that SPKG. Then it would get compiled
only when the SPKG is installed. Inside sage you could then detect at
run-time if the wrapper module is importable, and if so, use it.


There doesn't seem to be any sage-specific infrastructure currently for
putting Cython code in an .spkg (Unless I missed it, which is quite
possible). Maybe we could generalize the code in
sage/setup.py a little bit to make it importable in an spkg's setup.py
script?

But that could also be overkill and it might be easier to just use
cython's distutils extension like described at
http://docs.cython.org/docs/source_files_and_compilation.html#basic-setup-py
.


-Willem Jan

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