diff --git a/dev-python/textx/Manifest b/dev-python/textx/Manifest
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/textx/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DIST textX-1.4.tar.gz 21967 SHA256 6112b73b2c4713630824f7c57f14b3919a2c1e32a8246c37b009378b6079665c SHA512 7783f4dd1358d8e0df126f1be893c58e32f57015fd577bd20d00a17b63111d6e48222c9b78420a307fcd0833f6d9ac3a1398d55986681251f7c378cdcd68c8a4 WHIRLPOOL 8ef80f60e3a56322502912660e5296ad151b22692224c8cf04c83e2dc4e8700e78f0dae1d3f9db063f1e24e208a17d8c474a15ac57570221f9d9dedea29b9538
diff --git a/dev-python/textx/metadata.xml b/dev-python/textx/metadata.xml
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+++ b/dev-python/textx/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>zmedico@gentoo.org</email>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">textX</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="github">igordejanovic/textX</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/textx/textx-1.4.ebuild b/dev-python/textx/textx-1.4.ebuild
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index 0000000000000..ccd24edae3772
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+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{4,5} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+MY_PN=textX
+MY_P=${MY_PN}-${PV}
+DESCRIPTION="Meta-language for DSL implementation inspired by Xtext"
+HOMEPAGE="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/${MY_PN} https://github.com/igordejanovic/${MY_PN}"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${MY_PN:0:1}/${MY_PN}/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
+# pypi tarball omits tests
+RESTRICT="test"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="test"
+
+RDEPEND="dev-python/arpeggio[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
+
+python_test() {
+	py.test -v tests/functional || die "tests failed"
+}