[Parti-discuss] parti-0.0.6 compilation error

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk> wrote:
> Just trying to build the latest release on a stable Gentoo amd64 box and got
> this:
>
> parti-all-0.0.6/wimpiggy/lowlevel/wimpiggy.lowlevel.bindings.pyx:114:10:
> Expected an identifier or literal
>
> Upgrading pyrex from 0.9.4.1 (stable) to 0.9.8.5 (testing) fixed it.
>
> It may be worth adding a version test for pyrex?

Yeah -- these Pyrex version skew issues are really getting annoying.

I'm not sure how one would add a test like that exactly. though... I
guess we could just have setup.py bomb out entirely if a new enough
version of Pyrex isn't installed? distutils is not a very good
build/configuration system, unfortunately.

The other alternative I've considered is just switching everything to
Cython, which is a more actively-developed Pyrex fork -- that might
force people to have a newer version...

-- Nathaniel