def set_configuration():
    # set python version
    config.ExternalDepFound('python', '.'.join([str(x)
                                                for x in sys.version_info]))
    version = mdp.__version__
    if mdp.__revision__:
        version += ', ' + mdp.__revision__
    config.ExternalDepFound('mdp', version)

    # parallel python dependency
    try:
        import pp
        # set pp secret if not there already
        # (workaround for debian patch to pp that disables pp's default password)
        pp_secret = os.getenv('MDP_PP_SECRET') or 'mdp-pp-support-password'
        # module 'user' has been deprecated since python 2.6 and deleted
        # completely as of python 3.0.
        # Basically pp can not work on python 3 at the moment.
        import user
        if not hasattr(user, 'pp_secret'):
            user.pp_secret = pp_secret
    except ImportError, exc:
        config.ExternalDepFailed('parallel_python', exc) 

def _check_cython_version():
    message = 'Please install Cython with a version >= {0} in order ' \
              'to build a pmdarima distribution from source.' \
              .format(CYTHON_MIN_VERSION)
    try:
        import Cython
    except ModuleNotFoundError:
        # Re-raise with more informative error message instead:
        raise ModuleNotFoundError(message)

    if LooseVersion(Cython.__version__) < CYTHON_MIN_VERSION:
        message += (' The current version of Cython is {} installed in {}.'
                    .format(Cython.__version__, Cython.__path__))
        raise ValueError(message) 

def cythonize_extensions(top_path, config):
    """Check that a recent Cython is available and cythonize extensions"""
    _check_cython_version()
    from Cython.Build import cythonize

    # Fast fail before cythonization if compiler fails compiling basic test
    # code even without OpenMP
    basic_check_build()

    # check simple compilation with OpenMP. If it fails scikit-learn will be
    # built without OpenMP and the test test_openmp_supported in the test suite
    # will fail.
    # `check_openmp_support` compiles a small test program to see if the
    # compilers are properly configured to build with OpenMP. This is expensive
    # and we only want to call this function once.
    # The result of this check is cached as a private attribute on the sklearn
    # module (only at build-time) to be used twice:
    # - First to set the value of SKLEARN_OPENMP_PARALLELISM_ENABLED, the
    #   cython build-time variable passed to the cythonize() call.
    # - Then in the build_ext subclass defined in the top-level setup.py file
    #   to actually build the compiled extensions with OpenMP flags if needed.

    n_jobs = 1
    with contextlib.suppress(ImportError):
        import joblib
        if LooseVersion(joblib.__version__) > LooseVersion("0.13.0"):
            # earlier joblib versions don't account for CPU affinity
            # constraints, and may over-estimate the number of available
            # CPU particularly in CI (cf loky#114)
            n_jobs = joblib.cpu_count()

    config.ext_modules = cythonize(
        config.ext_modules,
        nthreads=n_jobs,
        compiler_directives={'language_level': 3}) 

def maybe_cythonize_extensions(top_path, config):
    """Tweaks for building extensions between release and development mode."""
    with_openmp = check_openmp_support()

    is_release = os.path.exists(os.path.join(top_path, 'PKG-INFO'))

    if is_release:
        build_from_c_and_cpp_files(config.ext_modules)
    else:
        message = ('Please install Cython with a version >= {0} in order '
                   'to build a sktime development version.').format(
            CYTHON_MIN_VERSION)
        try:
            import Cython
            if LooseVersion(Cython.__version__) < CYTHON_MIN_VERSION:
                message += ' Your version of Cython was {0}.'.format(
                    Cython.__version__)
                raise ValueError(message)
            from Cython.Build import cythonize
        except ImportError as exc:
            exc.args += (message,)
            raise

        n_jobs = 1
        with contextlib.suppress(ImportError):
            import joblib
            if LooseVersion(joblib.__version__) > LooseVersion("0.13.0"):
                # earlier joblib versions don't account for CPU affinity
                # constraints, and may over-estimate the number of available
                # CPU particularly in CI (cf loky#114)
                n_jobs = joblib.effective_n_jobs()

        config.ext_modules = cythonize(
            config.ext_modules,
            nthreads=n_jobs,
            compile_time_env={'SKTIME_OPENMP_SUPPORTED': with_openmp},
            compiler_directives={'language_level': 3}
        )