[Distutils] setup_requires for dev environments

[Paul Moore]

On 18 March 2015 at 16:02, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <contact at ionelmc.ro> wrote:
> one certainly doesn't need to shoehorn a full blown build system into
> setup.py - there's make, invoke, shell scripts and plenty of other systems
> that can do that just fine.

Just to insert a little history here, before distutils (setup.py) was
invented, Python packages used all sorts of tools to build. Often
shell scripts and/or make were used, which in essence meant that the
packages were unusable on Windows - even if there was no need for them
to be.

Distutils may be bad, but it's still far better than what it replaced :-)

Paul