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".

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

Commit a8b0463e turned out to be a bad
idea: unlike on Debian, on many platforms the numpy headers are not
available in the default include path.

    1. Now can be compiled without MUMPS
       (previously exception was thrown)
    2. Gives sensible error message for Git install,
       but without installed Cython.

With the reorganization of setup.py, most constants are now used in a
single place.  It is clearer and simpler to have them there.

The CYTHON_TRACE macro can be now set in the build.conf file.

All C extensions are now treated on equal footing and can be configured
in "build.conf".  All the options known by Extension may be set now for
any extension individually and for all of them together (using the
[DEFAULT] section).

This reduces the number of global variables and makes the code easier to
understand.

The removed code predates "build.conf" and should not be necessary on
most (all?) platforms.  Should numpy be missing in the include path, it
can be added using "build.conf".

If this change turns out to cause problems, we can always revert it.

Now we exec _kwant_version.py into a namespace and get
the version from that.

Specify only Python3 support in trove classifiers.
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0301/#distutils-trove-classification

Python 3 no longer allows implicit relative imports:
https://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/whatsnew/3.0.html#removed-syntax
Instead of importing the version file we just parse it. By keeping
the extension ".py" we make it so that it will be distributed along
with the rest of the package.

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.