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+from distutils.core import setup
+
+setup(name='Thrift',
+      version='1.0',
+      description='Thrift IDL compiler',
+      author =['Mark Slee', 'Marc Kwiatkowski'],
+      author_email= ['mcslee@facebook.com', 'marc@facebook.com'],
+      url='http://code.facebook.com/thrift',
+      package_dir={'thrift' : 'src'},
+      py_modules = ['thrift.parser', 'thrift.cpp_generator', 'thrift.generator'],
+      scripts = ['src/thrift']
+      )
+