turned starbench into an installable package

work related to  [https://bugzilla.ipr.univ-rennes.fr/show_bug.cgi?id=3878]

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+src/starbench/__pycache__/
+dist/
+src/starbench.egg-info/

README.md

@@ -22,5 +22,26 @@ then `starbench` will do the rest:
 ## example
 
 ```sh
-starbench.py --git-repos-url https://github.com/hibridon/hibridon --code-version a3bed1c3ccfbca572003020d3e3d3b1ff3934fad --git-user g-raffy --git-pass-file "$HOME/.github/personal_access_tokens/bench.hibridon.cluster.ipr.univ-rennes1.fr.pat" --num-cores 2 --output-dir=/tmp/hibench --cmake-path=/opt/cmake/cmake-3.23.0/bin/cmake --cmake-option=-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release --cmake-option=-DBUILD_TESTING=ON --benchmark-command='ctest --output-on-failure -L ^arch4_quick$'
+bob@bob-ws2:~/work/starbench$ python3 -m venv ./starbench.venv
+bob@bob-ws2:~/work/starbench$ source ./starbench.venv/bin/activate
+bob@bob-ws2:~/work/starbench$ pip install wheel
+Collecting wheel
+  Using cached wheel-0.43.0-py3-none-any.whl (65 kB)
+Installing collected packages: wheel
+Successfully installed wheel-0.43.0
+bob@bob-ws2:~/work/starbench$ pip install ./starbench.git
+Processing ./starbench.git
+  Installing build dependencies ... done
+  WARNING: Missing build requirements in pyproject.toml for file:///home/bob/work/starbench/starbench.git.
+  WARNING: The project does not specify a build backend, and pip cannot fall back to setuptools without 'wheel'.
+  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
+    Preparing wheel metadata ... done
+Building wheels for collected packages: starbench
+  Building wheel for starbench (PEP 517) ... done
+  Created wheel for starbench: filename=starbench-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl size=8011 sha256=a98c590fbc481722aed3512ae6345cce741615a17c24e67dc88070f85b616c4c
+  Stored in directory: /tmp/pip-ephem-wheel-cache-m_0xpm10/wheels/67/41/37/debf4c9251b719f84456398e144dffaa34d18ab336b529dc53
+Successfully built starbench
+Installing collected packages: starbench
+Successfully installed starbench-1.0.0
+bob@bob-ws2:~/work/starbench$ starbench --git-repos-url https://github.com/hibridon/hibridon --code-version a3bed1c3ccfbca572003020d3e3d3b1ff3934fad --git-user g-raffy --git-pass-file "$HOME/.github/personal_access_tokens/bench.hibridon.cluster.ipr.univ-rennes1.fr.pat" --num-cores 2 --output-dir=/tmp/hibench --cmake-path=/opt/cmake/cmake-3.23.0/bin/cmake --cmake-option=-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release --cmake-option=-DBUILD_TESTING=ON --benchmark-command='ctest --output-on-failure -L ^arch4_quick$'
 ```

pyproject.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools"]
+build-backup = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "starbench"
+dynamic = ["version"]  # the list of fields whose values are dicovered by the backend (eg __version__)
+description = "a tool to benchmark a git cmake application using embarassingly parallel runs"
+readme = "README.md"
+keywords = ["benchmark", "hpc", "parallel", 'openmp']
+license = {text = "MIT License"}
+dependencies = [
+#   "cocluto >= 1.2"
+#    "cocluto@git+https://git.ipr.univ-rennes.fr/cellinfo/cocluto"
+]
+requires-python = ">= 3.8"
+authors = [
+    {name = "Guillaume Raffy", email = "guillaume.raffy@univ-rennes.fr"}
+]
+
+[project.scripts]
+starbench = "starbench.main:main"
+
+[project.urls]
+Repository = "https://github.com/g-raffy/starbench"
+
+[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
+version = {attr = "starbench.main.__version__"}

setup.py

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import setuptools
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    setuptools.setup()

src/starbench/main.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 '''starbench is an application that is able to measure the execution time of a user software suite in various conditions (different build modes and different execution modes)
 
 '''
+__version__ = '1.0.0'
 import argparse
 import threading
 import subprocess