chore: Switch package long description to markdown

Signed-off-by: Kai Blin <kblin@biosustain.dtu.dk>

Author: kblin

publish.sh

@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -euo pipefail
 
-PANDOC=pandoc
-
-${PANDOC} -f markdown_github -t rst -o README.rst README.md
 rm -rf dist
 python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
 twine upload dist/*
-rm README.rst

setup.py

@@ -3,10 +3,13 @@
 from setuptools import setup
 from setuptools.command.test import test as TestCommand
 
+
+def read(fname):
+    return open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read()
+
+
 short_description = "Standalone application server framework using asyncio"
-long_description = short_description
-if os.path.exists('README.rst'):
-    long_description = open('README.rst').read()
+long_description = read('README.md')
 
 install_requires: list[str] = []
 
@@ -44,6 +47,7 @@ def run_tests(self):
     author_email='kblin@biosustain.dtu.dk',
     description=short_description,
     long_description=long_description,
+    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
     install_requires=install_requires,
     tests_require=tests_require,
     cmdclass={'test': PyTest},