Without this measure, a failed check is no longer detected.  This seems
to be a bug in gitlab CI.

It has the same problems as setup_requires.

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".

+ References to numpy arrays are removed from docstrings, instead
  general sequences are accepted

+ `__call__` no longer returns `where`

+ a `sum` attribute was added (and the corresponding arg in __init__. If
  sum==True then __call__ evaluates ∑_{iαβ} φ*_α Q_{iαβ} ψ_β. If
  sum==False then __call__ evaluates ∑_{αβ} φ*_α Q_{iαβ} ψ_β (i.e. no sum
  over the site/hopping index i.

Before we used the include_dir argument to setup(), but this caused problems:
kwant/kwant#48