setup.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

from setuptools import setup, find_packages
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

def get_git_version():
    try:
        p = Popen(['git', 'describe', '--tags', '--always', '--dirty'],
                stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
        p.stderr.close()
        if p.wait() == 0:
            return p.stdout.readlines()[0].strip()
    except:
        pass
    raise AssertionError('Could not find the version number')

version = get_git_version()

with open('pyixia/version.py', 'w') as f:
    f.write('# This file was autogenerated by setup.py\n')
    f.write('__version__ = \'%s\'\n' % (version,))

setup(name = 'pyixia',
        version = version,
        description = 'Ixia tools',
        author = 'Michael Walle',
        author_email = 'michael.walle@kontron.com',
        packages = find_packages(),
        url = 'http://github.com/kontron/python-ixia',
        license = 'LGPLv2+',
        classifiers = [
            'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha',
            'Environment :: Console',
            'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License v2 or later (LGPLv2+)',
            'Natural Language :: English',
            'Operating System :: OS Independent',
            'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
            'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
            'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
        ],
        entry_points = {
            'console_scripts': [
                'ixia_cli = pyixia.cli:main',
                'ixia_tcl_cli = pyixia.tcl_cli:main',
            ],
        },
        include_package_data = True,
)