Re: [Cython] CmdLine.py refactoring

2011-08-08 Thread Stefano
Sunday 7th August 2011 16:21:06, Stefan Behnel wrote: > argparse is new and not supported by anything but 2.7 and recent 3.x > versions. Cython currently runs on Python 2.4, which rules out a dependency > on argparse. I never tried it, so I can't tell what exactly the advantages > over optparse are

Re: [Cython] CmdLine.py refactoring

2011-08-08 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefano, 08.08.2011 22:36: As a proof of its quality, Fedora, Ubuntu and SuSe all ship a python-argparse package for older versions of python (<2.7). Given that the module is self- contained and as small as 80KB, wouldn't be feasible to add it as a build dependency? Note that that's huge compar

Re: [Cython] CmdLine.py refactoring

2011-08-08 Thread Vitja Makarov
2011/8/9 Stefan Behnel : > Stefano, 08.08.2011 22:36: >> >> As a proof of its quality, Fedora, Ubuntu and SuSe all ship a >> python-argparse >> package for older versions of python (<2.7). Given that the module is >> self- >> contained and as small as 80KB, wouldn't be feasible to add it as a build

Re: [Cython] CmdLine.py refactoring

2011-08-08 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
On 08/09/2011 08:33 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote: Stefano, 08.08.2011 22:36: As a proof of its quality, Fedora, Ubuntu and SuSe all ship a python-argparse package for older versions of python (<2.7). Given that the module is self- contained and as small as 80KB, wouldn't be feasible to add it as a bu