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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+'''
+   Setup script for Biomon
+'''
+
+import sys
+import os
+import subprocess
+
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+from setuptools.command.install_lib import install_lib as _install_lib
+from distutils.command.build import build as _build
+from distutils.command.sdist import sdist
+from distutils.cmd import Command
+
+
+class compile_translations(Command):
+    description = 'compile message catalogs to MO files via django compilemessages'
+    user_options = []
+
+    def initialize_options(self):
+        pass
+
+    def finalize_options(self):
+        pass
+
+    def run(self):
+        try:
+            from django.core.management.commands.compilemessages import \
+                    compile_messages
+            for path, dirs, files in os.walk('src'):
+                if 'locale' not in dirs:
+                    continue
+                curdir = os.getcwd()
+                os.chdir(os.path.realpath(path))
+                compile_messages(sys.stderr)
+                os.chdir(curdir)
+        except ImportError:
+            print
+            sys.stderr.write('!!! Please install Django >= 1.8.2 to build translations')
+            print
+            print
+
+
+class build(_build):
+    sub_commands = [('compile_translations', None)] + _build.sub_commands
+
+class eo_sdist(sdist):
+
+    def run(self):
+        print "creating VERSION file"
+        if os.path.exists('VERSION'):
+            os.remove('VERSION')
+        version = get_version()
+        version_file = open('VERSION', 'w')
+        version_file.write(version)
+        version_file.close()
+        sdist.run(self)
+        print "removing VERSION file"
+        if os.path.exists('VERSION'):
+            os.remove('VERSION')
+
+class install_lib(_install_lib):
+    def run(self):
+        self.run_command('compile_translations')
+        _install_lib.run(self)
+
+def get_version():
+    '''Use the VERSION, if absent generates a version with git describe, if not
+       tag exists, take 0.0.0- and add the length of the commit log.
+    '''
+    if os.path.exists('VERSION'):
+        with open('VERSION', 'r') as v:
+            return v.read()
+    if os.path.exists('.git'):
+        p = subprocess.Popen(['git','describe','--dirty','--match=v*'],
+                stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+        result = p.communicate()[0]
+        if p.returncode == 0:
+            return result.split()[0][1:].replace('-', '.')
+        else:
+            return '0.0.0-%s' % len(
+                    subprocess.check_output(
+                            ['git', 'rev-list', 'HEAD']).splitlines())
+    return '0.0.0'
+
+README = file(os.path.join(
+    os.path.dirname(__file__),
+    'README')).read()
+
+setup(name='biomon',
+        version=get_version(),
+        license='AGPLv3',
+        description='VEADISTA Monitoring software',
+        long_description=README,
+        author="Entr'ouvert",
+        url='https://repos.entrouvert.org/biomon.git',
+        author_email="info@entrouvert.com",
+        maintainer="Mikaël Ates",
+        maintainer_email="mates@entrouvert.com",
+        scripts=('biomon-ctl',),
+        packages=find_packages('src'),
+        package_dir={
+            '': 'src',
+        },
+        package_data={
+            'biomon': [
+                  'templates/biomon/*.html',
+                  'static/biomon/js/*.js',
+                  'static/biomon/css/*.css',
+                  'static/biomon/img/*.png',
+                  'static/biomon/img/*.jpg',
+                  'static/biomon/img/*.gif',
+                  'static/biomon/img/bg/*.png',
+                  'static/biomon/img/bg/*.jpg',
+                  'static/biomon/img/bg/*.gif',
+                  'locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/django.po',
+                  'locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo',
+            ],
+        },
+        install_requires=[
+            'django >= 1.8.2',
+            'matplotlib>=1.4.3',
+            'whisper>=0.9.13',
+        ],
+        cmdclass={
+            'build': build,
+            'install_lib': install_lib,
+            'compile_translations': compile_translations,
+            'sdist': eo_sdist},
+
+)