[Cython] array expressions

[Stefan Behnel]

Dag Sverre Seljebotn, 27.08.2012 14:47:
> On 08/27/2012 02:45 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
>> On 08/27/2012 02:05 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>> mark florisson, 27.08.2012 13:52:
>>>> On 27 August 2012 12:40, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>>>> The code tree looks a bit disorganised currently, with a lot of
>>>>> modules at
>>>>> the top level. I guess that's what you meant when you said "make it
>>>>> distributable".
>>>>
>>>> Indeed, the idea was that it would be included verbatim in
>>>> projects/used as a submodule, since it'd be small enough to include
>>>> and would always be stable and integrated into the main project. That
>>>> basically means the entire thing would be the package. It'd be kind of
>>>> nice to allow it both ways, i.e. install as a package, and make it
>>>> convenient as a submodule. I think that can be managed.
>>>
>>> I'd just move it into a package anyway and let projects that want to
>>> use it
>>> as a git submodule move it to an appropriate place during installation by
>>> appropriately configuring their project specific distutils setup.
>>>
>>>> E.g. I can see situations where you need to fix a little bug, or make
>>>> a small change where you don't really want (to wait for) a new release
>>>> of minivect, but you do want that exact commit for the release of the
>>>> main project.
>>>
>>> Doesn't that apply to more or less all code out there?
>>
>> Most package dependencies are *a lot* more loosely coupled that Cython
>> (w/some features)<->minivect. Since minivect works with an AST and all.
> 
> I think there's a case for having minivect as a git submodule for
> convenient development purposes (so that you can easily sort of refactor
> Cython and minivect together), but that's only a development mechanism.
> 
> I.e., Cython first tries to import 'Cython.minivect' (which could be a
> symlink into a git submodule) and if that fails 'minivect', the latter
> would be the normal end-user mode because Cython doesn't bundle minivect.

python setup.py develop

(or the equivalent options for pip and easy_install)

Stefan