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+from distutils.core import setup
+#import distutils.command.bdist_conda
+
+setup(
+    name='slideslicer',
+    version='0.1',
+    packages=['slideslicer',],
+    license='BSDv2',
+    author="Dmytro S Lituiev",
+    author_email="d.lituiev@gmail.com",
+    description="tools for reading Leica digital slides and annotations, and cutting them in smaller patches",
+    long_description=open('README.md').read(),
+    setup_requires = ['cython','matplotlib','numpy',
+                      ],
+    install_requires=['pandas', 'openslide_python', 'Pillow>=5.0.0', 'opencv-python',
+                      'scikit-image>=0.14.1', # used solely in hsv_histeq.py
+                      'pycocotools',
+                      'shapely', 'descartes', 
+                      'lxml',
+                      ],
+    classifiers=[
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+        "License :: BSDv2",
+        "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+    ],
+    #distclass=distutils.command.bdist_conda.CondaDistribution,
+    conda_buildnum=1,
+)