Re: [matplotlib-devel] Experiments in removing/replacing PyCXX

[Nathaniel S. <nj...@po...>]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Michiel de Hoon <mjl...@ya...> wrote:
> One package (Pysam) that I use a lot relies on Cython, and requires users to install Cython before they can install Pysam itself. With Cython, is that always the case? Will all users need to install Cython? Or is it sufficient if only matplotlib developers install Cython?

You can set things up so that end-users don't have to install cython.
You just convert the .pyx files to regular .c files before
distributing your package. Numpy itself uses cython, but end-users
don't notice or care. (It's something more of a hassle for developers
to do things this way, and cython is very easy to install, so I don't
know if it's worth it. But it's certainly possible.)

-n