Switching from Pyrex to Cython

[Martin Pool]

2009/7/15 John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>:

> Anyway, I'd *really* like to at least upgrade to a version of pyrex that
> supports
>  cdef list myobject
> and
>  myval += 1
>
> And if we are going to do that, we should consider upgrading to Cython
> anyway.

It depends what you mean by "upgrading".  It seems like some of these
benefits, like better tracebacks, you'll get by just using the newer
compiler in building the packages or in your own development
environment, but the larger ones depend on us stating a requirement
for that version and making use of it in our source.

Is Cython upwardly-compatible with all our Pyrex source?

We can get a later version installed on the pqm machine.  It will be
much easier if it's at least packaged in Karmic and can be rebuilt to
work with python2.4 installed there.  It's hard to predict how long it
will take, but if we want it we should send the request now...

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>