setup.py

import re
import tempfile
import os
import sys
import time

from shutil import rmtree
from subprocess import check_call

from distutils.core import setup
from distutils.command.build import build

# python 3
try:
    python_command = 'python'
    from urllib2 import urlopen
except ImportError:
    python_command = 'python3'
    from urllib.request import urlopen

ASSIMP_CMAKE_URL = 'http://raw.github.com/assimp/assimp/master/CMakeLists.txt'
ASSIMP_URL       = 'https://github.com/assimp/assimp.git'
ASSIMP_PYTHON    = 'port/PyAssimp'

def get_assimp_version():
    cmakelists = urlopen(ASSIMP_CMAKE_URL).read()
    if hasattr(cmakelists, 'decode'):
        cmakelists = cmakelists.decode('utf-8')
    major = re.findall('(?<=ASSIMP_VERSION_MAJOR) \d', cmakelists)[0].strip()
    minor = re.findall('(?<=ASSIMP_VERSION_MINOR) \d', cmakelists)[0].strip()
    patch = re.findall('(?<=ASSIMP_VERSION_PATCH) \d', cmakelists)[0].strip()
    version_string = '.'.join([major, minor, patch])
    return version_string

def install_assimp():
    temp_dir = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), 'assimp_' + str(int(time.time())))
    
    os.makedirs(temp_dir)
    cwd      = os.getcwd()

    try:
        check_call(['git', 'clone', ASSIMP_URL, temp_dir])
        os.chdir(temp_dir)
        check_call(['cmake', 'CMakeLists.txt', '-G', 'Unix Makefiles'])
        check_call(['make'])
        check_call(['make', 'install'])
        os.chdir(os.path.join(temp_dir, ASSIMP_PYTHON))
        check_call([python_command, 'setup.py', 'install'])
    finally:
        os.chdir(cwd)
        rmtree(temp_dir)
        
class _build(build):
    def run(self):
        install_assimp()

setup(name        = 'assimp_latest',
      description = 'assimp/pyassimp fresh off github',
      version     = get_assimp_version(),
      cmdclass    = {'build': _build} )