[lxml-dev] Call for contribution towards lxml 1.3

[Christian Zagrodnick]

On 2007-04-26 22:19:14 +0200, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> said:

> Hi all,
> 
> lxml 1.3 is nearing completion. There were some major changes under the hood,
>  but the most visible part of the new release is actually the new layout of
> the documentation site, which should make it much more accessible. As usual,
> the preview is here:
> 
> http://codespeak.net/lxml/dev/
> 
> Some of you have mentioned their impression that it's hard to help out on lxml
> as it's written in Pyrex, not Python. Although the current code looks very
> C-ish in many places, this is more of a performance optimisation than a real
> requirement. Pyrex actually makes it possible to work on the code in a very
> Python-like style, and to make the C-ification a matter of later improvement.
> So Python(-like) implementations of new features are definitely welcome. A
> non-optimised implementation of an interesting feature is much better than the
> lack of this feature would be. So, everyone is invited to get involved in
> making the code even better than it is today.

The problem for me always was that the Pyrex required was some special 
version. And if you'd just checkout the code you couldn't compile it 
just like that. If there's a way to "fix" that (like with a buildout) 
I'd be very willing to do changes, even in Pyrex.

Pyrex doesn't look too strange to me. :)


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