BLD: don't require cython on sdist install #14475
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git diff upstream/master | flake8 --diff
We could just make a cython a build-time requirement, but given we already create a sdists with
.c
files, probably makes sense to continue to support it.I tested this locally, applying this patch on the latest source release and it installed into a an environment without cython fine.