Replace distutils with setuptools in the Cython and python_minimal
interfaces. Add console_scripts option to generate OS specific scripts to run
ck2cti, mixmaster, and ctml_writer
Remove script files that are obsoleted by console_scripts from
setuptools. Remove installation of the script modules from SConstruct.
Fix Python installers so that when a prefix directory is specified on the
command line, setuptools doesn't throw an error. The setuptools documentation at
[1] prefers setting PYTHONUSERBASE rather than PYTHONPATH. Use normpath to avoid
bugs in setuptools on Windows [2]. Specify an empty "--prefix" if the compiler
is clang to fix a bug with Homebrew Python on Mac OSX [3].
[1]: https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/easy_install.html#custom-installation-locations
[2]: http://stackoverflow.com/q/31629398
[3]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-python/issues/187
3to2 cannot be called as an executable on Windows, but it can be called
as a script. Assume that the 3to2 script is installed in
PYTHONROOT\Scripts, which is the default for installation by pip.
The near-requirement of using the same version of MSVC as Python was compiled
with has been relaxed by the move to compiling the Python extension in SCons
rather than letting Distutils do it.
This fixes compatibility with Homebrew. With the default prefix '/usr/local',
this puts the man pages in /usr/local/share/man/man1/, which is usually on the
man path on other OSes as well.
Use the correct platform-independent path separator instead of assuming that it
is ':'.
Determine the PYTHONPATH variable in a single place for each Python version.
The user's environmental variables are now passed down to the tests. Previously they had been ignored.
All of the python tests (minimal and full) had been failing for over a year or so for any installations which actually use the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PYTHONPATH environmental variables, which pretty much consists of all multiuser linux
machines.
Documentation can be built independently of the code by using the 'scons sphinx'
and 'scons doxygen' commands, as an alternative to using the options
'sphinx_docs=y' and 'doxygen_docs=y' to 'scons build'.
