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+#
+# Copyright 2017 the original author or authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+# Always prefer setuptools over distutils
+from os import path
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+# io.open is needed for projects that support Python 2.7
+# It ensures open() defaults to text mode with universal newlines,
+# and accepts an argument to specify the text encoding
+# Python 3 only projects can skip this import
+from io import open
+
+package = 'pyvoltha'
+setup_dir = path.dirname(path.abspath(__file__))
+version_file = path.join(setup_dir, "VERSION")
+
+# Get the long description from the README file
+with open(path.join(setup_dir, 'README.md'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
+    long_description = f.read()
+
+with open(version_file) as version_file:
+    version = version_file.read().strip()
+
+requirements = open(path.join(setup_dir, "requirements.txt")).read().splitlines()
+required = [line for line in requirements if not line.startswith("-")]
+print "Required is '{}'".format(required)
+
+setup(
+    name=package,
+    version=version,
+    description='VOLTHA Python support libraries',
+    author='Chip Boling',
+    author_email='chip@bcsw.net',
+    long_description=long_description,
+    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
+    url='https://wiki.opencord.org/display/CORD/VOLTHA',
+
+    classifiers=[
+        'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha',
+        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
+        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries',
+        'License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
+    ],
+    packages=find_packages(exclude=['protos']),
+    install_requires=[required],
+    include_package_data=True,
+    dependency_links=["git+https://github.com/ciena/afkak.git#egg=afkak-3.0.0.dev20181106"]
+)