ENH: added setuptools for python

.gitignore

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 # Compiled Python
 __pycache__/
 *.py[cod]
-
+*.cache
 
 # Executables
 *.exe

src/swig/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ if(BUILD_SWIG_PYTHON OR BUILD_SWIG_OCTAVE OR BUILD_SWIG_MATLAB)
 endif()
 
 if(BUILD_SWIG_PYTHON)
-
   FIND_PACKAGE(PythonLibs REQUIRED)
   FIND_PACKAGE(Numpy REQUIRED)
   INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${PYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH} ${PYTHON_NUMPY_INCLUDE_DIR})
@@ -52,8 +51,11 @@ if(BUILD_SWIG_PYTHON)
   set(PYTHON_DEST ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/python CACHE PATH "Destination for python module")
   INSTALL(TARGETS ${SWIG_MODULE_stir_REAL_NAME} DESTINATION ${PYTHON_DEST})
   INSTALL(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/stir.py  DESTINATION ${PYTHON_DEST})
-  INSTALL(FILES stirextra.py  DESTINATION ${PYTHON_DEST})
+  INSTALL(FILES stirextra.py DESTINATION ${PYTHON_DEST})
 
+  # Install STIR as a package
+  INSTALL(FILES __init__.py DESTINATION ${PYTHON_DEST})
+  INSTALL(CODE "EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND python ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/setup.py install WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PYTHON_DEST})")
 endif(BUILD_SWIG_PYTHON)
 
 if (BUILD_SWIG_OCTAVE)

src/swig/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+from stir import *
+import stirextra

src/swig/setup.py

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+from distutils.core import setup
+
+setup(name='stir',
+      version='3.0.0',
+      url='https://github.com/UCL/STIR',
+      description='STIR: Software for Tomographic Image Reconstruction',
+      packages=['stir'],
+      package_dir={'stir': '.'},
+      package_data={'stir': ['*.*']})

src/swig/test/python/test_IO.py

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 #    See STIR/LICENSE.txt for details
 
 from stir import *
-from stirextra import *
+from stir.stirextra import *
 import os
 # for Python2 and itertools.zip->zip (as in Python 3) 
 try:

src/swig/test/python/test_numpy.py

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 
 import py.test
 from stir import *
-import stirextra
 # for Python2 and itertools.zip->zip (as in Python 3) 
 try:
     import itertools.izip as zip