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-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# This tool can be used to install a new package into MicroPython
-# library location (for unix port, default behavior), or produce
-# complete library snapshot to be deployed on a device for baremetal
-# ports (if PIP_MICROPY_DEST environment var is set).
-#
-# Note: this tool is deprecated in favor of "upip" native MicroPython
-# package manager, which is bundled with MicroPython unix binary
-# as a frozen module and can be run as "micropython -u pip" or installed
-# from PyPI package "micropython-upip". This utility is left for
-# reference, regression testing, debugging, etc.
-#
-
-if [ "$1" != "install" ]; then
-    echo "Only install command is supported currently"
-    exit 1
-fi
-shift
-
-if [ -z "$TMPDIR" ]; then
-    TMPDIR=/tmp
-fi
-TMPVENV="$TMPDIR/pip-micropy-venv"
-
-if [ -n "$PIP_MICROPY_DEST" ]; then
-    dest="$PIP_MICROPY_DEST"
-    echo "Destination snapshot directory: $dest"
-elif [ -n "$MICROPYPATH" ]; then
-    libdest=$(echo "$MICROPYPATH" | awk -F: ' {print $1}')
-    echo "Destination library directory: $libdest"
-else
-    echo "Warning: MICROPYPATH is not set, assuming default value"
-    libdest=~/.micropython/lib
-    echo "Destination library directory: $libdest"
-fi
-
-# Due to bugs in pip, installation should happen with active virtualenv
-# The issue (at least with pip 1.0 which is still what's shipped with many
-# distros) is that even if --ignore-installed is used, package is not
-# installed if it's already installed for main python distribution.
-if [ ! -d "$TMPVENV" ]; then
-    virtualenv --no-site-packages "$TMPVENV"
-    # distutils, setuptools, pip are buggy and allow target packages affect
-    # their execution environment. For example, if distribution they install
-    # has re.py, they will import that instead of system re. So, we need
-    # to remove current dir from sys.path, but that appear to be quite uneasy
-    # with CPython, so we hook __import__ and exterminate it persistently.
-    # See also https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/187/
-    cat > $(ls -1d "$TMPVENV"/lib/python*/)/sitecustomize.py <<EOF
-import sys
-import __builtin__
-old_imp = __import__
-def new_imp(*a, **kw):
-    if not sys.path[0]: sys.path.pop(0)
-    return old_imp(*a, **kw)
-__builtin__.__import__ = new_imp
-EOF
-fi
-. "$TMPVENV"/bin/activate
-
-# We need to specify --record to override this switch as passed by pip
-# pip will try to parse this file (at the location in specifies), and try to
-# access files as specified in it. But paths there will be relative to --root
-# we pass, so it won't find files and crash. However, if it won't find the
-# file, it will just issue a warning and continue.
-if [ -n "$dest" ]; then
-pip install "$@" \
-    --install-option="--install-base=." \
-    --install-option="--install-purelib=lib" \
-    --install-option="--install-platlib=lib" \
-    --install-option="--install-scripts=." \
-    --install-option="--install-headers=headers" \
-    --install-option="--install-data=lib" \
-    --install-option="--record=$TMPDIR/setuptools-record.txt" \
-    --install-option="--no-compile" \
-    --install-option="--root=$dest"
-else
-# Here we assume that base dir is lib dir, and install scripts a level
-# higher. For default value of ~/.micropython/lib/ , this should give
-# reasonable behavior, though better would make it overridable (or
-# go bold and use ~/bin ?)
-pip install "$@" \
-    --install-option="--install-base=." \
-    --install-option="--install-purelib=." \
-    --install-option="--install-platlib=." \
-    --install-option="--install-scripts=.." \
-    --install-option="--install-headers=../headers" \
-    --install-option="--install-data=." \
-    --install-option="--record=$TMPDIR/setuptools-record.txt" \
-    --install-option="--no-compile" \
-    --install-option="--root=$libdest"
-fi