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authorRalf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com>2015-12-29 17:24:51 +0100
committerRalf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com>2016-01-16 12:18:26 +0100
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downloadnumpy-4b43d20fec0eda4a8f02e843b3e6e454bb243f49.tar.gz
BUG: fix TravisCI test issues when using setuptools unconditionally.
Also remove all mentions of setupegg.py from the documentation.
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@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ To perform an in-place build that can be run from the source folder run::
python setup.py build_ext --inplace
-The NumPy build system uses ``distutils`` and ``numpy.distutils``.
-``setuptools`` is only used when building via ``pip`` or with ``python
-setupegg.py``. Using ``virtualenv`` should work as expected.
+The NumPy build system uses ``setuptools`` (from numpy 1.11.0, before that it
+was plain ``distutils``) and ``numpy.distutils``.
+Using ``virtualenv`` should work as expected.
*Note: for build instructions to do development work on NumPy itself, see*
:ref:`development-environment`.