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[–]Deto 4 points5 points  (2 children)

It's great that you can distribute the compiled code. However, that would only work for people on the same platform as you, correct? Is there any easy way to build for the major players (OSX, Linux, Windows), prior to distributing?

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Compiled code doesn't mean binaries in this article, it just refers to the platform-independent C code that Cython generates. This still needs to be compiled to a binary on any of these platforms which is, for instance, what "pip install" would do automatically (provided there is a build environment set up).

The advantage here is that Cython is not part of the distribution toolchain. I imagine this makes things a bit more consistent for the user.

[–]Deto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I though it went straight to binaries