astropy/astropy — pull request #725 by iguananaut (2013-03-01 00:33:15+00:00)
Title: ./setup.py develop doesn't work in a fresh checkout

A typical workflow for myself, and many others, is to check out a repository, create a virtualenv, and then run `./setup.py develop` in the virtualenv. Normally this should just work out of the box, but with Astropy I'm now getting an error about `cython_version.py` being missing.

Normally `./setup.py develop` should automatically run the build command first so I'm not sure why exactly this is happening. There's no problem if I manually run `./setup.py build` followed by `./setup.py develop` so this really isn't a big deal, but I'd still like to get to the bottom of it at some point because it is a bug.