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-.PHONY: setup run test lint typecheck clean
-
-# any Python >= 3.11 works; system python3 on tower-of-joy is 3.8, hence explicit
-PYTHON ?= python3.12
-
-setup:
-	$(PYTHON) -m venv .venv
-	.venv/bin/pip install -e ".[dev]"
-
-setup-speech:
-	.venv/bin/pip install -e ".[dev,speech]"
-
-run:
-	.venv/bin/uvicorn desklock_gateway.main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8600 --reload
-
-test:
-	.venv/bin/pytest
-
-lint:
-	.venv/bin/ruff check src tests
-	.venv/bin/ruff format --check src tests
-
-typecheck:
-	.venv/bin/mypy src
-
-clean:
-	rm -rf .venv .pytest_cache .ruff_cache .mypy_cache
-	find . -type d -name __pycache__ -exec rm -rf {} +