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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
-"""
-)