On Nov 1, 2009, at 1:32 AM, David Cournapeau wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I needed to be able to build an egg for cython on windows, and thought
> it could be interesting to integrate it to cython sources. Besides an
> egg, it provides cython as a console_script, which is easier to handle
> on windows.
>
> The patch is minimal and non invasive, as by default, setuptools is
> *not* run if you use setup.py. I attached the patch here (I can't
> connect to trac ATM),

This sounds like a good idea, though distutils and packaging are  
outside my area of expertise, especially on Windows. I am a bit wary  
of the line

if 'setuptools' in sys.modules

is this always safe?

- Robert

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