no setuptools-markdown

[ocefpaf]

PyPI will soon support markdown files making this dependency unnecessary.
See https://packaging.python.org/specifications/#description-content-type

[s-celles]

Great news Markdown support with PyPI was a long awaited feature!

https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issues/148/support-markdown-for-readmes
pypi/legacy#148
pypi/warehouse#869

but I'm not sure if this feature is live now

moreover I wonder how Description-Content-Type should be set using setuptools
because pypa/setuptools#1075 is not merged for now

[ocefpaf]

Yep. It will take a while longer 😒

But the use of setuptools-markdown here makes it quite hard to package this with external package managers. I am currently "patching" the source to remove it to be able to package it.

TL;DR you don't need to merge this now, or ever 😄, but I really hope that soon README.md will be the standard for PyPI.

[s-celles]

According pypa/setuptools#1075 and pypa/packaging.python.org#258

we will probably need to add

long_description_content_type='text/markdown; charset=UTF-8; variant=CommonMark',

or

long_description_content_type='text/markdown; charset=UTF-8',

which default to Markdown rendering with variant CommonMark

[ocefpaf]

Yep. I can add that if you are interested in the PR.

[s-celles]

Yes. I will merge it when Markdown support in setuptools, twine and Warehouse will be merged.

Just send me a reminder if I forget to merge when the full chain will be ready.

[s-celles]

What is current status ?

[ocefpaf]

I believe that is done upstream. Here is the oficial example and the issue for the Markdown support.

[s-celles]

LGTM also