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+# from distutils.core import setup
+
+# Always prefer setuptools over distutils
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+# To use a consistent encoding
+from codecs import open
+from os import path
+
+# workaround from https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/308 to avoid "normalizing" version "2018.01.09" to "2018.1.9":
+# 2019-03-08: got error
+#    vk@sherri ~/src/filetags (git)-[master] % ./update_pip.sh
+#    Traceback (most recent call last):
+#      File "setup.py", line 11, in <module>
+#        pkg_resources.extern.packaging.version.Version = pkg_resources.SetuptoolsLegacyVersion
+#    AttributeError: module 'pkg_resources' has no attribute 'SetuptoolsLegacyVersion'
+#    1 vk@sherri ~/src/filetags (git)-[master] %
+#import pkg_resources
+#pkg_resources.extern.packaging.version.Version = pkg_resources.SetuptoolsLegacyVersion
+
+here = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))
+
+# Get the long description from the README file
+#with open(path.join(here, 'README.rst'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
+#    long_description = f.read()
+
+setup(
+    name="filetags",
+    version="2024.02.12.1",
+    description="Management of simple tags within file names",
+    author="Karl Voit",
+    author_email="tools@Karl-Voit.at",
+    url="https://github.com/novoid/filetags",
+    download_url="https://github.com/novoid/filetags/zipball/master",
+    keywords=["tagging", "tags", "file managing", "file management", "files", "tagtrees", "tagstore", "tag-based navigation", "tag-based filter"],
+    packages=find_packages(), # Required
+    package_data={'filetags': ['Register_filetags_for_Windows_context_menu_TEMPLATE.reg']},
+    install_requires=["colorama", "pyreadline3", "clint"],
+    classifiers=[
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
+        "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+        "Environment :: Console",
+        "Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop",
+        "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)",
+        "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+        ],
+    entry_points={  # Optional
+        'console_scripts': [
+            'filetags=filetags:main'
+        ],
+    },
+#    long_description=long_description, # Optional
+    long_description="""This Python script adds or removes tags to file names in the following
+form:
+
+- file without time stamp in name -- tag2.txt
+- file name with several tags -- tag1 tag2.jpeg
+- another example file name with multiple example tags -- fun videos kids.mpeg
+- 2013-05-09 a file name with ISO date stamp in name -- tag1.jpg
+- 2013-05-09T16.17 file name with time stamp -- tag3.csv
+
+The script accepts an arbitrary number of files (see your shell for
+possible length limitations).
+
+- Target group: users who are able to use command line tools and who
+  are using tags in file names.
+- Hosted and documented on github: https://github.com/novoid/filetags
+"""
+)