Re: cython 3.x (for Python 3.12)

[Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@wrar.name>]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 09:30:03PM +0100, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
> > I find that there's also a significant issue with relying on
> > cython3-legacy: it conflicts with cython3, meaning that it will be
> > impossible to simultaneously install packages depending on cython3 and
> > cython3-legacy.  Once cython 3.x moves from experimental to unstable
> > to testing and packages start depending on it, this will become a
> > significant issue.  I assume that the aim will be for everything to be
> > ported to cython 3.x and for cython3-legacy to be dropped from testing
> > before the trixie freeze?
> I wonder how many packages actually need a runtime dep on cython. I
> quickly checked three packages from `reverse-depends cython3` and while
> python3-pysph probably uses cython to generate code at the run time (not
> sure), python3-pyzoltan seems to only use it at the build time and
> python3-epimodels doesn't seem to use it at all.
(I may be terribly wrong, I just thought cython is almost always a build
time only dep and there are around 30 packages depending on it which was
surprising)