Removed useless pytest-cov dependency

Fixed pytest-html version
Got rid of pypandoc

Author: Sylvain MARIE

ci_tools/requirements-pip.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 # --- to execute setup.py whatever the goal
-pypandoc
 pytest-runner
 setuptools_scm
 stdlib_list
@@ -11,8 +10,8 @@ pytest_cases
 makefun==1.6.8
 
 # --- to generate the reports (see scripts in ci_tools, called by .travis)
-pytest-cov==2.6.0  # after 2.6.1 it requires pytest 3.6
-pytest-html  #$PYTEST_HTML_VERSION
+# pytest-cov==2.6.0  # after 2.6.1 it requires pytest 3.6
+pytest-html==1.9.0  # otherwise requires pytest 5
 xunitparser
 
 # --- to generate the doc (see .travis)

setup.py

@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 INSTALL_REQUIRES = ['stdlib_list', 'setuptools_scm', 'functools32;python_version<"3.2"',
                     'scandir;python_version<"3.2"', 'pathlib2;python_version<"3.2"']
 DEPENDENCY_LINKS = []
-SETUP_REQUIRES = ['pytest-runner', 'setuptools_scm', 'pypandoc', 'pandoc']
-TESTS_REQUIRE = ['pytest', 'pytest-logging', 'pytest-cov', 'pytest-cases>=1.10.1',
+SETUP_REQUIRES = ['pytest-runner', 'setuptools_scm']
+TESTS_REQUIRE = ['pytest', 'pytest-logging', 'pytest-cases>=1.10.1',
                  'makefun==1.6.8'  # we use that precise version because it does not have the __version__ attribute.
                  ]
 EXTRAS_REQUIRE = {}
@@ -40,19 +40,11 @@
 
 KEYWORDS = 'module version source binary package library PEP345 PEP396 PEP427 pkg_resources setuptools wheel egg ' \
            'egg-info scm git svn'
-# --Get the long description from the README file
-# with open(path.join(here, 'README.md'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
-#    LONG_DESCRIPTION = f.read()
-try:
-    import pypandoc
-    LONG_DESCRIPTION = pypandoc.convert(path.join(here, 'docs', 'long_description.md'), 'rst').replace('\r', '')
-except(ImportError):
-    from warnings import warn
-    warn('WARNING pypandoc could not be imported - we recommend that you install it in order to package the '
-         'documentation correctly')
-    LONG_DESCRIPTION = open('README.md').read()
-
-# ************* VERSION A **************
+
+with open(path.join(here, 'docs', 'long_description.md')) as f:
+    LONG_DESCRIPTION = f.read()
+
+# ************* VERSION **************
 # --Get the Version number from VERSION file, see https://packaging.python.org/single_source_version/ option 4.
 # THIS IS DEPRECATED AS WE NOW USE GIT TO MANAGE VERSION
 # with open(path.join(here, 'VERSION')) as version_file:
@@ -63,6 +55,7 @@
     name=DISTNAME,
     description=DESCRIPTION,
     long_description=LONG_DESCRIPTION,
+    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
 
     # Versions should comply with PEP440.  For a discussion on single-sourcing
     # the version across setup.py and the project code, see