setuptools-markdown 0.4.1

[Deprecated] Use Markdown for your project description

setuptools-markdown

Use Markdown for your project description

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This project is deprecated.

Instead of using this, you should use the built-in functionality of setuptools and PyPI.

See this page for details.

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Install

1. Install pandoc

2. Install this module

pip install setuptools-markdown

Use

#!/usr/bin/env python
# setup.py

from setuptools import setup

setup(
    ...
    setup_requires=['setuptools-markdown'],
    long_description_markdown_filename='README.md',
    ...
)

The plugin will read the specified file, convert it to reST using pypandoc and store the resulting reST in the long_description metadata field of your distribution.