Start working on setup.py

.gitignore

@@ -1,7 +1,23 @@
-db/
+# Tests
 tests/*testdb/
 .coverage
+db/
+
+# Compiled / cythonized files
+build/
 *.pyc
+nilmdb/server/interval.c
+nilmdb/server/interval.so
+nilmdb/server/layout.c
+nilmdb/server/layout.so
+nilmdb/server/rbtree.c
+nilmdb/server/rbtree.so
+
+# Setup junk
+dist/
+nilmdb.egg-info/
+
+# Misc
 design.html
 timeit*out
 

nilmdb/server/__init__.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 # Try to set up pyximport to automatically rebuild Cython modules.  If
 # this doesn't work, it's OK, as long as the modules were built externally.
+# (e.g. python setup.py build_ext --inplace)
 try:
     import pyximport
     pyximport.install()

setup.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+# This is supposed to be using Distribute:
+#
+#   distutils provides a "setup" method.
+#   setuptools is a set of monkeypatches on top of that.
+#   distribute is a particular version/implementation of setuptools.
+#
+# So we don't really know if this is using the old setuptools or the
+# Distribute-provided version of setuptools.
+
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+from distutils.extension import Extension
+from Cython.Build import cythonize
+
+# Build cython modules
+cython_modules = cythonize("**/*.pyx")
+
+# Run setup
+setup(name='nilmdb',
+      version='1.0',
+      install_requires = [ 'distribute' ],
+      packages = find_packages(),
+      ext_modules = cython_modules,
+      )