Setuptools, build and install dependencies

[Robert Kern]

Harry George wrote:

> We need to know the dependencies, install them in dependency order,
> and expect the next package to find them.  "configure" does this for
> hundreds of packages.  cmake, scons, and others also tackle this
> problem.  Python's old setup.py seems to be able to do it.  

No, generic setup.py scripts don't do anything of that kind.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco