The .c files generated by cython are not forward compatible so the current sdist will not install on cpython master (and given the errors, I assume 3.8b4, but I have not tried).
Having a cython dependency when installing from source is not too bad (cython can be pip-installed and you need a compiler either way) and wheels can be used to serve users who need to have no install time dependencies.
This is the opposite request of #4.
Installing from the repository works correctly.