setup.py

from setuptools import setup


from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

def get_info(option):
    v = Popen(["hg","id",option], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0]
    return v

def get_tag():
    return get_info('-t')

def get_version():
    return get_info('-i')

def get_license():
    data = None
    with open('COPYING','r') as f:
        data = f.read()
    return data

description =\
"""Arakoon is a simple distributed key value store.
This package provides a pure python client for Arakoon.

Mercurial version: %s
""" % (get_version(),)

setup(name='arakoon',
      version=get_tag(),
      package_dir={'arakoon':'src/client/python'},
      packages=['arakoon'],
      data_files = [('license',['COPYING'])],
      url='http://www.arakoon.org',
      description=description,
      zip_safe=True,
      license= get_license()
      )