Provide a setup.py file for installation and packaging#18

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Commits on Nov 19, 2011

provides version information using git describe
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supply version information using get_version() from _version.py
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make version information easily available from inside the module
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provide a manifest template so that "python setup.py sdist" will contain files required for installation that the default template omits
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provide a version info tuple so that the version string does not need to be manually parsed.
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parse version strings that do not have a commit hash... e.g. 'v0.1.0'
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provide an example of the tuple returned from parse_version when the hash is not present in the version string
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automatically install unittest2 for python version < (2,7)
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include tests in the distribution tarball so that they can be tested after installation
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write the Windows version comparison in a more readable manner
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