diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
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+# locales
+recursive-include welco/locale *.po *.mo
+
+# static
+recursive-include welco/static *.css *.js *.ico *.gif *.png *.jpg
+
+# templates
+recursive-include welco/templates *.html
+
+include COPYING README
+include MANIFEST.in
+include VERSION
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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+#! /usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+import glob
+import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+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
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+class eo_sdist(sdist):
+    def run(self):
+        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)
+        if os.path.exists('VERSION'):
+            os.remove('VERSION')
+
+def get_version():
+    if os.path.exists('VERSION'):
+        version_file = open('VERSION', 'r')
+        version = version_file.read()
+        version_file.close()
+        return version
+    if os.path.exists('.git'):
+        p = subprocess.Popen(['git', 'describe', '--dirty', '--match=v*'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+        result = p.communicate()[0]
+        if p.returncode == 0:
+            version = result.split()[0][1:]
+            version = version.replace('-', '.')
+            return version
+    return '0'
+
+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):
+        curdir = os.getcwd()
+        try:
+            from django.core.management import call_command
+            for path, dirs, files in os.walk('welco'):
+                if 'locale' not in dirs:
+                    continue
+                curdir = os.getcwd()
+                os.chdir(os.path.realpath(path))
+                call_command('compilemessages')
+                os.chdir(curdir)
+        except ImportError:
+            sys.stderr.write('!!! Please install Django >= 1.4 to build translations\n')
+        finally:
+            os.chdir(curdir)
+
+
+class build(_build):
+    sub_commands = [('compile_translations', None)] + _build.sub_commands
+
+
+class install_lib(_install_lib):
+    def run(self):
+        self.run_command('compile_translations')
+        _install_lib.run(self)
+
+
+setup(
+    name='welco',
+    version=get_version(),
+    description='Multichannel request processing',
+    author='Frederic Peters',
+    author_email='fpeters@entrouvert.com',
+    packages=find_packages(),
+    include_package_data=True,
+    scripts=('manage.py',),
+    url='https://dev.entrouvert.org/projects/welco/',
+    classifiers=[
+        'Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha',
+        'Environment :: Web Environment',
+        'Framework :: Django',
+        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
+        'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Affero General Public License v3 or later (AGPLv3+)',
+        'Operating System :: OS Independent',
+        'Programming Language :: Python',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
+    ],
+    install_requires=['django>=1.7',
+        ],
+    zip_safe=False,
+    cmdclass={
+        'build': build,
+        'compile_translations': compile_translations,
+        'install_lib': install_lib,
+        'sdist': eo_sdist,
+    },
+)