Packages that are mentionned there are installed in a way that bypasses
pip:
https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/?highlight=setup_requires#installation-bundles

These prefixes were visible, for example when invoking
"./setup.py --help build".

Christoph Groth authored 9 years ago and Anton Akhmerov committed 9 years ago

Co-authored by Anton Akhmerov <anton.akhmerov@gmail.com>

I try to cleanly separate between information that should be part of the
Kwant source distribution (that is tied to a particular version of
Kwant), and generic information that is best presented on the website.

The pip tool messes up the timestamps of files, so with our previous strategy
of enabling cython by default the build fails if Cython is not available.

Also, turn the "warning" into a "caution" message that is less frightening and
send it to stdout only, so that it does not appear with pip.

This offers better dependency handling (the compilation of some .c files
depends on build.conf, but their cythonization doesn't), and other advantages
like parallel builds.

We do not use it, but this makes sure that it's included in SOURCES.txt.  This
is necessary so that source distributions can be recreated identically from
source distributions.