[Cython] Refnanny done

[Stefan Behnel]

Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
> The test suite now runs successfully with the refnanny; the only
> difference in turning it on is that bug #200 is detected :-)
>
> There was practically no time penalty for the test suite. I propose that
> once the issue below is fixed, this is made the default behaviour for
> runtests.py, and that --no-refnanny will be the flag instead.

+1


> Also, I think this could be a good time for lxml and Sage to try to run
> with the refnanny. See the bottom of
> http://wiki.cython.org/enhancements/refnanny for instructions.

I didn't try running the refnanny so far, but I'm very happy to hear that
you consider it done. Thanks for the work you put into it. I'll certainly
give it a try with lxml, but that won't be before the end of next week.


> The only thing missing is that runtests.py should compile refnanny.pyx
> automatically rather than leave it for manual compilation. As about all
> I know about distutils is the name I was hoping someone else could pick
> that up: http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/ticket/201. But lxml and
> Sage cannot benefit from this anyway, it must be integrated into their
> own build system.

You can leave that to pyximport/pyxbuild.py.

Stefan