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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2007 Edgewall Software
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
+# you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
+# are also available at http://babel.edgewall.org/wiki/License.
+#
+# This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
+# individuals. For the exact contribution history, see the revision
+# history and logs, available at http://babel.edgewall.org/log/.
+
+import doctest
+from glob import glob
+import os
+from setuptools import find_packages, setup, Command
+import sys
+
+
+class build_doc(Command):
+    description = 'Builds the documentation'
+    user_options = []
+
+    def initialize_options(self):
+        pass
+
+    def finalize_options(self):
+        pass
+
+    def run(self):
+        from docutils.core import publish_cmdline
+        docutils_conf = os.path.join('doc', 'docutils.conf')
+        epydoc_conf = os.path.join('doc', 'epydoc.conf')
+
+        for source in glob('doc/*.txt'):
+            dest = os.path.splitext(source)[0] + '.html'
+            if not os.path.exists(dest) or \
+                   os.path.getmtime(dest) < os.path.getmtime(source):
+                print 'building documentation file %s' % dest
+                publish_cmdline(writer_name='html',
+                                argv=['--config=%s' % docutils_conf, source,
+                                      dest])
+
+        try:
+            from epydoc import cli
+            old_argv = sys.argv[1:]
+            sys.argv[1:] = [
+                '--config=%s' % epydoc_conf,
+                '--no-private', # epydoc bug, not read from config
+                '--simple-term',
+                '--verbose'
+            ]
+            cli.cli()
+            sys.argv[1:] = old_argv
+
+        except ImportError:
+            print 'epydoc not installed, skipping API documentation.'
+
+
+class test_doc(Command):
+    description = 'Tests the code examples in the documentation'
+    user_options = []
+
+    def initialize_options(self):
+        pass
+
+    def finalize_options(self):
+        pass
+
+    def run(self):
+        for filename in glob('doc/*.txt'):
+            print 'testing documentation file %s' % filename
+            doctest.testfile(filename, False, optionflags=doctest.ELLIPSIS)
+
+
+setup(
+    name = 'Babel',
+    version = '0.1',
+    description = 'Internationalization utilities',
+    long_description = \
+"""A collection of tools for internationalizing Python applications.""",
+    author = 'Edgewall Software',
+    author_email = 'info@edgewall.org',
+    license = 'BSD',
+    url = 'http://babel.edgewall.org/',
+    download_url = 'http://babel.edgewall.org/wiki/Download',
+    zip_safe = False,
+
+    classifiers = [
+        'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
+        'Environment :: Web Environment',
+        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
+        'License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License',
+        'Operating System :: OS Independent',
+        'Programming Language :: Python',
+        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
+    ],
+    packages = find_packages(exclude=['tests']),
+    package_data = {'babel': ['localedata/*.dat']},
+    test_suite = 'babel.tests.suite',
+
+    entry_points = """
+    [console_scripts]
+    pygettext = babel.catalog.frontend:main
+    
+    [distutils.commands]
+    extract_messages = babel.catalog.frontend:extract_messages
+    
+    [babel.extractors]
+    genshi = babel.catalog.extract:extract_genshi
+    python = babel.catalog.extract:extract_python
+    """,
+
+    cmdclass = {'build_doc': build_doc, 'test_doc': test_doc}
+)