Is anyone familiar with this situation enough to comment on it, in a
few sentences? Based on:
-
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/commit/f1a2d6376c430f65550efa235209b86c1a0967e3
It looks like:
- Numpy forked distutils (2001) prior to setuptools existence/popularity (2004)
- As a result, SciPy users must now pay a terrible price (i.e. SciPy
does not `install_requires` numpy as you might expect; i suspect
because it relies on numpy's distutils… which it can't rely on until
it's installed… which it can't `install_requires` until it's installed…)
Alex
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