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+"""
+A setuptools based setup module.
+See:
+https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/distributing.html
+https://github.com/pypa/sampleproject
+"""
+
+from setuptools import setup
+# To use a consistent encoding
+from codecs import open
+from os import path
+
+here = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))
+
+# Get the long description from the relevant file
+with open(path.join(here, 'README.rst'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
+    long_description = f.read()
+
+setup(
+    name='digimarks', # pip install digimarks
+    description='Simple bookmarking service, using a SQLite database to store bookmarks, supporting tags and automatic title fetching.',
+    #long_description=open('README.md', 'rt').read(),
+    long_description=long_description,
+
+    # version
+    # third part for minor release
+    # second when api changes
+    # first when it becomes stable someday
+    version='0.1.0',
+    author='Michiel Scholten',
+    author_email='michiel@diginaut.net',
+
+    url='https://github.com/aquatix/digimarks',
+    license='Apache',
+
+    # as a practice no need to hard code version unless you know program wont
+    # work unless the specific versions are used
+    install_requires=['Flask', 'Peewee', 'Flask-Peewee', 'utilkit'],
+
+    py_modules=['digimarks'],
+
+    zip_safe=True,
+)