https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers has now completely
replaced instructions for `distutils`-based packages (starting with
`from distutils.core import setup`) with ones for `setuptools`-based
ones (starting with `from setuptools import setup`).
However, if I have a `distutils`-based `setup.py`, when I run it,
`setuptools` is not used - thus the instructions on the page don't work.
It is possible to run a `distutils`-based script through `setuptools`,
as `pip` does, but it requires the following code
(https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/8.1.2/pip/req/req_install.py#L849 ):
python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__=<setup.py full
path>;
exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read()
.replace('\\r\\n', '\\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" <setup.py arguments>
They can't possibly expect me to type that on the command line each
time, now can they?
I also asked this at http://stackoverflow.com/q/40174932/648265 a couple
of days ago (to no avail).
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