This text seems quite old. Now : - wheels are more common, and popular libraries (scipy, cryptography) have packages built at least for windows. On linux it's

This text seems quite old. Now : - wheels are more common, and popular libraries (scipy, cryptography) have packages built at least for windows. On linux it's not a big deal since we have package managers. - setuptools is now the only stuff we need again, since all has been merged in it. It's still not very clear, but it's much better than before.