Merge ef1a68d into daed76a

setup.py

@@ -93,4 +93,9 @@ def create_version_py_file(options):
     # keep here are ones that we have done some compile-time processing on.
     setup(
         version=options['version'],
+        entry_points={
+            'qutip.about': [
+                'qutip_qip = qutip_qip:_about'
+            ]
+        }
     )

src/qutip_qip/__init__.py

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 from .version import version as __version__  # noqa
+from .about import about, _about

src/qutip_qip/about.py

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+"""
+Command line output of information on QuTiP QIP and dependencies.
+"""
+
+import qutip
+import qutip_qip
+import os
+import inspect
+
+
+def _about():
+    """
+    Meant to be called from qutip's about function
+    through qutip-qip's entrypoint.
+    """
+    title = "QuTiP QIP: QuTiP Quantum Information Processing"
+    lines = []
+    lines.append("=" * len(title))
+    lines.append("QuTiP QIP Version: %s" % qutip_qip.__version__)
+    qutip_qip_install_path = os.path.dirname(inspect.getsourcefile(qutip_qip))
+    lines.append("Installation path: %s" % qutip_qip_install_path)
+    return title, lines
+
+
+def about():
+    """About box for QuTiP QIP."""
+    qutip.about()