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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+"""The setup script."""
+
+from setuptools import find_packages, setup
+
+with open("README.md") as readme_file:
+    readme = readme_file.read()
+
+with open("HISTORY.md") as history_file:
+    history = history_file.read()
+
+requirements = [
+    "numpy",
+    "zarr",  # Includes numcodecs as a dependency
+]
+
+# Requirements which improve performance
+performance_requirements = ["opencv-python"]
+
+# Extra format support
+format_support = [
+    "tifffile",  # For reading, writing and repackaging TIFF files
+    "dask",  # Reading and writing TIFF/Zarr with non-standard axis order
+    "glymur",  # For reading and writing JP2 files
+    "xarray",
+]
+
+# Extra codecs support
+codec_requirements = ["imagecodecs", "qoi"]
+
+test_requirements = [
+    "pytest>=3",
+    "opencv-python",
+    "scipy",
+    "scikit-image",
+]
+test_requirements += performance_requirements
+test_requirements += codec_requirements
+
+docs_requirements = [
+    "sphinx",
+    "sphinx-autoapi",
+]
+
+alternative_requirements = [
+    "scipy",  # Alternative to scikit-image, is a dependency of scikit-image
+    "scikit-image",  # Alternative to opencv-python for some operations
+]
+
+# Command-line interface requirements
+cli_requirements = ["Click>=7.0"]
+
+# User experience improving requirements
+ux_requirements = ["tqdm"]
+
+# All extra requirements
+all_extra_requirements = (
+    test_requirements
+    + docs_requirements
+    + format_support
+    + codec_requirements
+    + alternative_requirements
+    + cli_requirements
+    + ux_requirements
+)
+
+# Optional dependencies
+extra_requirements = {
+    "all": all_extra_requirements,
+    "test": test_requirements,
+    "docs": docs_requirements,
+    "cli": cli_requirements,
+    "ux": ux_requirements,
+    "performance": performance_requirements,
+    "formats": format_support,
+    "codecs": codec_requirements,
+    "jpeg2000": ["glymur"],
+}
+
+setup(
+    author="John Pocock",
+    author_email="j.c.pocock@warwick.ac.uk",
+    python_requires=">=3.8",
+    classifiers=[
+        "Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha",
+        "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+        "Natural Language :: English",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+    ],
+    description="Whole Slide Image (WSI) conversion for brightfield histology images",
+    entry_points={
+        "console_scripts": [
+            "wsic=wsic.cli:main",
+        ],
+    },
+    install_requires=requirements,
+    long_description=readme + "\n\n" + history,
+    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
+    include_package_data=True,
+    keywords="wsic",
+    name="wsic",
+    packages=find_packages(include=["wsic", "wsic.*"]),
+    test_suite="tests",
+    tests_require=test_requirements,
+    extras_require=extra_requirements,
+    url="https://github.com/john-p/wsic",
+    version="0.9.0",
+    zip_safe=False,
+)