[Cython] Cython 0.9.8 released

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Ondrej Certik wrote:
> Why is cython now compiling Cython.Plex.Scanners with gcc but not
> installing it with setup.py install?

It should get installed automatically by distutils.

It gets compiled because that makes it faster. It's a purely optional feature.


> Is this a bug with Cython or on my side? I am just using the same
> Debian package as I was using for all previous cython versions, but
> suddenly it fails to build, because it depends on python-dev. So I
> added python-dev to build-depends, it builds, it works, but the
> Cython/Plex/Scanners.so is not installed in the final package. What's
> wrong?

Any error output?


> Should I upload the package as it is, i.e. without the Scanners.so
> file? I tested it on some simple .pyx files and it seems to work.

You can, but I would prefer having that in.


> I'd like to get this resolved in about 5 hours, so that I can upload
> before today's dinstall run, so that Tim can build Sage in Debian with
> it.

Please provide some more details.

Stefan