use markdown for pypi readme

mbacchi · mbacchi · commit 9a09096ef169 · 2018-08-12T10:44:30.000-06:00
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 clean:
 	rm -rf dist build *.egg-info tests/tempdir
 
-# Dist requires Python 3, the binary pandoc & the pip packages wheel & pypandoc
+# Dist requires Python 3 & the pip package wheel
 dist:
 	python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
 
diff --git a/gitsecrets/__init__.py b/gitsecrets/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = '0.0.4'
+__version__ = '0.1.0'
 
 import os
 import re
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
@@ -5,18 +5,13 @@
 
 import gitsecrets
 
-# borrowed conversion process from
-# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26737222/pypi-description-markdown-doesnt-work
-try:
-    import pypandoc
-    long_description = pypandoc.convert('README.md', 'rst')
-except(IOError, ImportError):
-    long_description = open('README.md').read()
+long_description = open('README.md').read()
 
 setup(name="python-git-secrets",
       version=gitsecrets.__version__,
       description="Python implementation of git-secrets",
       long_description=long_description,
+      long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
       url="https://github.com/mbacchi/python-git-secrets",
       author='Matt Bacchi',
       author_email='mbacchi@gmail.com',
