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+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+setup(
+    name="envschema",
+    version="0.1.0",
+    description="A CLI tool that validates environment variables against a JSON/YAML schema file",
+    author="EnvSchema Team",
+    packages=find_packages(where="."),
+    package_dir={"": "."},
+    python_requires=">=3.10",
+    install_requires=[
+        "click>=8.1.7",
+        "pyyaml>=6.0.1",
+        "python-dotenv>=1.0.0",
+        "pydantic>=2.5.0",
+    ],
+    extras_require={
+        "dev": [
+            "pytest>=7.0.0",
+            "pytest-cov>=4.0.0",
+        ]
+    },
+    entry_points={
+        "console_scripts": [
+            "envschema=envschema.cli:cli",
+        ],
+    },
+    classifiers=[
+        "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
+        "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+        "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+    ],
+)
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