From 61a78d6c693bcc27ac44dcabc124929ab18a4a3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Silvester <steven.silvester@ieee.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:00:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix setup.py in the presence of no numpy

---
 setup.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6c55c6d6..53b5aa71 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -87,14 +87,15 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     except ImportError:
         if len(sys.argv) >= 2 and ('--help' in sys.argv[1:] or
                                    sys.argv[1] in ('--help-commands',
-                                                   'egg_info', '--version',
+                                                   '--version',
                                                    'clean')):
             # For these actions, NumPy is not required.
             #
             # They are required to succeed without Numpy for example when
             # pip is used to install scikit-image when Numpy is not yet
             # present in the system.
-            pass
+            from setuptools import setup
+            extra = {}
         else:
             print('To install scikit-image from source, you will need numpy.\n' +
                   'Install numpy with pip:\n' +