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+from setuptools import setup
+import os
+import sys
+
+_here = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+
+if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
+    with open(os.path.join(_here, 'README.rst')) as f:
+        long_description = f.read()
+else:
+    with open(os.path.join(_here, 'README.rst'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
+        long_description = f.read()
+
+version = {}
+with open(os.path.join(_here, 'runtest', 'version.py')) as f:
+    exec(f.read(), version)
+
+setup(
+    name='runtest',
+    version=version['__version__'],
+    description=('Numerically tolerant end-to-end test library for scientific codes.'),
+    long_description=long_description,
+    author='Radovan Bast',
+    author_email='radovan.bast@uit.no',
+    url='https://github.com/bast/runtest',
+    license='MPL-2.0',
+    packages=['runtest'],
+#   no dependencies
+#   install_requires=[
+#       'dependency==1.2.3',
+#   ],
+#   no scripts
+#   scripts=['bin/a-script'],
+    include_package_data=True,
+    classifiers=[
+        'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
+        'Intended Audience :: Science/Research',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6'],
+    )