Adding a link to download the tarball from github tags

Author: stack72

setup.py

@@ -1,15 +1,14 @@
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-from pip.req import parse_requirements
+
+def parse_requirements(filename):
+    """ load requirements from a pip requirements file """
+    lineiter = (line.strip() for line in open(filename))
+    return [line for line in lineiter if line and not line.startswith("#")]
 
 setup(
     name="nagios-elasticsearch",
     description="A selection of Nagios plugins to monitor ElasticSearch.",
-    long_description="""
-nagios-elasticsearch is a selection of nagios plugins that will monitor
-a selection of ElasticSearch cluster metrics like Unassigned Shards, Cluster
-health, that all nodes in the cluster are accounted for and also the Cluster
-JVM settings
-    """,
+    long_description=open('README.md').read(),
     version="0.1",
     packages=find_packages(),
     author='Paul Stack',
@@ -18,8 +17,7 @@
     download_url = 'https://github.com/stack72/nagios-elasticsearch/tarball/0.1',
     scripts=["check_es_nodes.py","check_es_cluster_status.py","check_es_jvm_usage.py", "check_es_unassigned_shards.py","check_es_split_brain.py"],
     license="MIT",
-    install_requires=[str(req.req) for req in
-                      parse_requirements("requirements.txt")],
+    install_requires=parse_requirements("requirements.txt"),
     include_package_data=True,
     keywords = ['monitoring','nagios','elasticsearch'],
     classifiers=[],