Added setup.py for installing imapbackup38.py

.gitignore

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 # C extensions
 *.so
 
+# virtual environment
+.venv
+
 # Packages
 *.egg
 *.egg-info
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 # Things that might show up during testing
 *.mbox
+

README.md

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 A Python script for creating full backups of IMAP mailboxes
 
+## Installation
+
+Installation is provided for imapbackup38 (requires python3.8 and above)
+
+```
+pip install .
+
+imapbackup38 -s IMAP_SERVER  -u USER_NAME -d TARGET_DIR [OPTIONS]
+
+```
+
 ## Background
 
 This was first published around 2007 (probably earlier) [on my personal site][tao], and it was originally developed to work around the then rather limited (ok, inconsistent) Mac OS X Mail.app functionality and allow me to back up my old mailboxes in a fully standard `mbox` format (well, at least as much as `mbox` can be considered a standard...).
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 ## Requirements
 
 Python 2.x : `imapbackup.py` should work on Python 2.5 or any other 2.x version without any extra dependencies whatsoever. 
+
 Python 3.x : `imapbackup38.py` requires python 3.8 and above.
 
 ## Contributing

setup.py

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+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+with open("requirements.txt", "r") as _f:
+    requirements = [line for line in _f.read().split("\n")]
+
+setup(
+    name="imapbackup38",
+    description="A Python script for creating full backups of IMAP mailboxes",
+    packages=find_packages(),
+    author="Rui Carmo",
+    entry_points="""
+    [console_scripts]
+    imapbackup38=imapbackup38:main
+    """,
+    py_modules=["imapbackup38"],
+    install_requires=requirements,
+    version="0.0.1",
+    url="https://github.com/rcarmo/imapbackup",
+)