Thomas Robitaille

So I just realized that the main code changes here depend on ``get_distutils_option`` which has since been removed since distutils is deprecated and direct use of setup.py is also deprecated....

Just a quick note that with https://github.com/astropy/extension-helpers/pull/33 we can use extension helpers with setup.cfg only projects. I would prefer simply advocating that the option to Extension for the limited API...

Ah yes my bad, we should just parse the config file directly to check for the option

@lpsinger - see here: https://github.com/astropy/extension-helpers/blob/55b7859e08d4cf711ab3037ca7df1ab64b59c922/extension_helpers/__init__.py#L17-L21 For an example of how we parse an option from ``setup.cfg``

@lpsinger just to check, is this something you might have time to work on in the near future? If not, one of us could maybe try and wrap it up...

That would be great, thanks! :)

@lpsinger - just to check, is this something you would have time to work on?

Just a note that I started experimenting with Cython and the limited API and I can't get it to work even with a simple example: https://groups.google.com/g/cython-users/c/-hasuL2VEdo/m/LFaf70PYAwAJ?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer This is even with...

@lpsinger - are you still interested in trying to tidy up this PR? I think this would be very useful for some projects, and now that Cython supports it we...

Thanks for the report! Another possible fix that would avoid having to call ``os.remove`` would be to check if the destination file is the same as the file being copied...