Commit 704bac1d authored by Stefan Behnel's avatar Stefan Behnel

make it clearer that wheels are even better than faster source builds

parent d628f780
......@@ -42,18 +42,19 @@ directory, and then run::
If you have Python setuptools set up on your system, you should be
able to fetch Cython from PyPI and install it using::
easy_install cython
easy_install Cython
or
::
pip install cython
pip install Cython
For Windows there is also a wheel package available for download.
For one-time builds, e.g. on CI and test servers, it is substantially
faster to install an uncompiled (slower) version of Cython with
For one-time builds, e.g. for CI/testing, on platforms that are not covered
by one of the wheel packages provided on PyPI, it is substantially faster
than a full source build to install an uncompiled (slower) version of Cython with
::
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......@@ -296,8 +296,9 @@ setup(
C/C++ libraries, and for fast C modules that speed up the execution of
Python code.
Note that for CI and test builds that use Cython for one-time compilation,
you can speed up the Cython installation with::
Note that for one-time builds, e.g. for CI/testing, on platforms that are not
covered by one of the wheel packages provided on PyPI, it is substantially faster
than a full source build to install an uncompiled (slower) version of Cython with::
pip install Cython --install-option="--no-cython-compile"
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