diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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--- a/setup.py
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@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2015 Ultimaker B.V.
-# Cura is released under the terms of the LGPLv3 or higher.
-
-from distutils.core import setup
-import py2exe
-import UM
-import UM.Qt #@UnusedImport
-import cura  #@UnusedImport
-import os
-import shutil
-import site
-
-# work around the limitation that shutil.copytree does not allow the target directory to exist
-def copytree(src, dst, symlinks=False, ignore=None):
-    if not os.path.exists(dst):
-        os.makedirs(dst)
-    for item in os.listdir(src):
-        s = os.path.join(src, item)
-        d = os.path.join(dst, item)
-        if os.path.isdir(s):
-            copytree(s, d, symlinks, ignore)
-        else:
-            shutil.copy2(s, d)
-
-includes = ["sip", "ctypes", "UM", "PyQt5.QtNetwork", "PyQt5._QOpenGLFunctions_2_0", "serial", "Arcus", "google", "google.protobuf", "google.protobuf.descriptor", "xml.etree", "xml.etree.ElementTree", "cura", "cura.OneAtATimeIterator"]
-# Include all the UM modules in the includes. As py2exe fails to properly find all the dependencies due to the plugin architecture.
-for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(os.path.dirname(UM.__file__)):
-    if "__" in dirpath:
-        continue
-    module_path = dirpath.replace(os.path.dirname(UM.__file__), "UM")
-    module_path = module_path.split(os.path.sep)
-    module_name = ".".join(module_path)
-    if os.path.isfile(dirpath + "/__init__.py"):
-        includes += [module_name]
-        for filename in filenames:
-            if "__" in filename or not filename.endswith(".py"):
-                continue
-            includes += [module_name + "." + os.path.splitext(filename)[0]]
-
-print("Removing previous distribution package")
-shutil.rmtree("dist", True)
-
-setup(name="Cura",
-        version="15.09.80",
-        author="Ultimaker",
-        author_email="a.hiemstra@ultimaker.com",
-        url="http://software.ultimaker.com/",
-        license="GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (LGPL)",
-        scripts=["cura_app.py"],
-        windows=[{"script": "cura_app.py", "dest_name": "Cura", "icon_resources": [(1, "icons/cura.ico")]}],
-        #console=[{"script": "cura_app.py"}],
-        options={"py2exe": {"skip_archive": False, "includes": includes}})
-
-print("Copying Cura plugins.")
-shutil.copytree(os.path.dirname(UM.__file__) + "/../plugins", "dist/plugins", ignore = shutil.ignore_patterns("ConsoleLogger", "OBJWriter", "MLPWriter", "MLPReader"))
-for path in os.listdir("plugins"):
-    copytree("plugins/" + path, "dist/plugins/" + path)
-print("Copying resources.")
-copytree(os.path.dirname(UM.__file__) + "/../resources", "dist/resources")
-copytree("resources", "dist/resources")
-print("Copying Uranium QML.")
-shutil.copytree(os.path.dirname(UM.__file__) + "/Qt/qml/UM", "dist/qml/UM")
-for site_package in site.getsitepackages():
-    qt_origin_path = os.path.join(site_package, "PyQt5")
-    if os.path.isdir(qt_origin_path):
-        print("Copying PyQt5 plugins from: %s" % qt_origin_path)
-        shutil.copytree(os.path.join(qt_origin_path, "plugins"), "dist/PyQt5/plugins")
-        print("Copying PyQt5 QtQuick from: %s" % qt_origin_path)
-        shutil.copytree(os.path.join(qt_origin_path, "qml/QtQuick"), "dist/qml/QtQuick")
-        shutil.copytree(os.path.join(qt_origin_path, "qml/QtQuick.2"), "dist/qml/QtQuick.2")
-        print("Copying PyQt5 svg library from: %s" % qt_origin_path)
-        shutil.copy(os.path.join(qt_origin_path, "Qt5Svg.dll"), "dist/Qt5Svg.dll")
-        print("Copying Angle libraries from %s" % qt_origin_path)
-        shutil.copy(os.path.join(qt_origin_path, "libEGL.dll"), "dist/libEGL.dll")
-        shutil.copy(os.path.join(qt_origin_path, "libGLESv2.dll"), "dist/libGLESv2.dll")
-os.rename("dist/cura_app.exe", "dist/Cura.exe")