patch to music21 to make installable via pip (lightly modified from http://code.google.com/p/music21/issues/detail?id=57)

setuptools.diff

Index: music21/setup.py
===================================================================
--- music21/setup.py  (revision 1238)
+++ music21/setup.py  (working copy)
@@ -10,16 +10,17 @@
 # License:       LGPL
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

+try:
+    from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+except ImportError:
+    from ez_setup import use_setuptools
+    use_setuptools()
+    from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
 import sys, os
 import music21
 from music21 import common

-
-DESCRIPTION = 'A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musical Analysis and Manipulation.'
-DESCRIPTION_LONG = 'A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musical Analysis and Manipulation. Developed at MIT. Michael Scott Cuthbert, Principal Investigator, Christopher Ariza, Lead Programmer. The development of music21 is supported by the generosity of the Seaver Institute.'
-
-
-
 def _getPackagesList():
     """List of all packages, delimited by period, with relative path names. Assigned to setup.py's `packages` argument.
     """
@@ -60,24 +61,6 @@

 def _getClassifiers():
     # http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=list_classifiers
-    classifiers = [
-            'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
-            'Environment :: Console',
-             'Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop',
-             'Intended Audience :: Developers',
-             'Intended Audience :: Education',
-             'Intended Audience :: Science/Research',
-             'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)',
-             'Natural Language :: English', 
-             'Operating System :: MacOS',
-             'Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows',
-             'Operating System :: POSIX',
-             'Operating System :: OS Independent',
-             'Programming Language :: Python',
-             'Topic :: Multimedia :: Sound/Audio',
-             'Topic :: Artistic Software',
-             'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
-             ]
     return classifiers
      
 
@@ -99,51 +83,79 @@
 
 
 
-def runDisutils(bdistType=None):
-    '''The main distutils routine. 
-
-    When called without arguments, this performs a standard distutils installation. 
-    '''
-    if bdistType == 'bdist_egg':
-        print('using setuptools')
-        from setuptools import setup
-    else:
-        from distutils.core import setup
-
-    setup(name = 'music21', 
-        version = music21.VERSION_STR,
-        description = DESCRIPTION, 
-        long_description = DESCRIPTION_LONG,
-        author = 'Michael Scott Cuthbert, Christopher Ariza, others',
-        #author_email = '',
-        license = 'LGPL', 
-        url = 'http://code.google.com/p/music21',
-        classifiers = _getClassifiers(),
-        download_url = 'http://music21.googlecode.com/files/music21-%s.tar.gz' % music21.VERSION_STR,
-        packages = _getPackagesList(), 
-        package_data = {'music21': _getPackageData()},
-    ) # close setup args
+# def runDisutils(bdistType=None):
+#     '''The main distutils routine.
+#
+#     When called without arguments, this performs a standard distutils installation.
+#     '''
+#     if bdistType == 'bdist_egg':
+#         print('using setuptools')
+#         from setuptools import setup
+#     else:
+#         from distutils.core import setup
+#
+#     setup(name = 'music21',
+#         version = music21.VERSION_STR,
+#         description = DESCRIPTION,
+#         long_description = DESCRIPTION_LONG,
+#         author = 'Michael Scott Cuthbert, Christopher Ariza, others',
+#         #author_email = '',
+#         license = 'LGPL',
+#         url = 'http://code.google.com/p/music21',
+#         classifiers = _getClassifiers(),
+#         download_url = 'http://music21.googlecode.com/files/music21-%s.tar.gz' % music21.VERSION_STR,
+#         packages = _getPackagesList(),
+#         package_data = {'music21': _getPackageData()},
+#     ) # close setup args
     
         
 
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 if len(sys.argv) == 1: # no args
     print('welcome to music21\nto run setup.py for installation, enter, as an administrator (or with sudo): python setup.py install\n')
+    print('No action specified. Exiting.')
+    sys.exit(0)
 
-elif sys.argv[1] in ['bdist', 'sdist', 'register', 'bdist_mpkg',
-                        'bdist_rpm', 'bdist_deb', 'bdist_wininst',
-                        'bdist_egg']:
-    import music21
+DESCRIPTION = 'A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musical Analysis and Manipulation.'
+DESCRIPTION_LONG = 'A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musical Analysis and Manipulation. Developed at MIT. Michael Scott Cuthbert, Principal Investigator, Christopher Ariza, Lead Programmer. The development of music21 is supported by the generosity of the Seaver Institute.'
+CLASSIFIERS = [
+        'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
+        'Environment :: Console',
+         'Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop',
+         'Intended Audience :: Developers',
+         'Intended Audience :: Education',
+         'Intended Audience :: Science/Research',
+         'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)',
+         'Natural Language :: English',
+         'Operating System :: MacOS',
+         'Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows',
+         'Operating System :: POSIX',
+         'Operating System :: OS Independent',
+         'Programming Language :: Python',
+         'Topic :: Multimedia :: Sound/Audio',
+         'Topic :: Artistic Software',
+         'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
+         ]
+
+if sys.argv[1] in ['bdist', 'sdist', 'register', 'bdist_mpkg',
+                 'bdist_rpm', 'bdist_deb', 'bdist_wininst',
+                 'bdist_egg', 'develop']:
     fpMusic21 = music21.__path__[0] # list, get first item
     fpPackageDir = os.path.dirname(fpMusic21)
     print('fpPackageDir = %s' % fpPackageDir)
     writeManifestTemplate(fpPackageDir)
-    runDisutils(sys.argv[1])
+    #runDisutils(sys.argv[1])
 
-elif sys.argv[1] in ['install']:
-    runDisutils('install')
 
-else:
-    print('cannot process provided arguments: %s\n' % sys.argv[1:])
-
-
+setup(name = 'music21',
+    version = music21.VERSION_STR,
+    description = DESCRIPTION,
+    long_description = DESCRIPTION_LONG,
+    author = 'Michael Scott Cuthbert, Christopher Ariza, others',
+    license = 'LGPL',
+    url = 'http://code.google.com/p/music21',
+    classifiers = CLASSIFIERS,
+    download_url = 'http://music21.googlecode.com/files/music21-%s.tar.gz' % music21.VERSION_STR,
+    packages = _getPackagesList(),
+    package_data = {'music21': _getPackageData()},
+) # close setup args