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-#!/bin/sh
-# Script to build a Scrapy release. To be run from root dir in Scrapy
-# distribution.
-
-# clean repo
-hg purge --all
-
-# build packages
-version=$(python -c "import scrapy; print scrapy.__version__")
-python setup.py sdist
-# FIXME: bdist_wininst doesn't work on Unix (it doesn't include the data_files)
-# To build the win32 release you need to use Windows for now.
-#python setup.py bdist_wininst -t "Scrapy $version" -p "win32"
-