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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2006 Christopher Lenz
+# 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://trac.edgewall.com/license.html.
+#
+# This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
+# individuals. For the exact contribution history, see the revision
+# history and logs, available at http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/.
+
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+setup(
+    name='Markup', version='0.1',
+    description='Toolkit for stream-based generation of markup for the web',
+    author='Christopher Lenz', author_email='cmlenz@gmx.net',
+    license='BSD', url='http://markup.cmlenz.net/',
+    packages=find_packages(exclude=['*.tests*']),
+    test_suite = 'markup.tests.suite',
+    zip_safe = True
+)