From 9952eaad84863e8321a4a814883d8027f37c5295 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ford <hkpeprah@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:04:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Use pandoc to convert markdown to rst (#2)

---
 .travis.yml |  6 ++++++
 setup.py    | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 8006610..2b78928 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ python:
 
 install:
 - pip install -r requirements.txt
+- pip install pypandoc
 
 script:
 - pycodestyle .
@@ -20,3 +21,8 @@ deploy:
   on:
     branch: master
     tags: true
+
+addons:
+  apt:
+    packages:
+      - pandoc
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e0517b0..0134a74 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -204,6 +204,28 @@ def run(self):
         return behave.main([self.features_dir])
 
 
+def long_description():
+    """Reads and returns the contents of the README.
+
+    On failure, returns the project long description.
+
+    Returns:
+      The project's long description.
+    """
+    cwd = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+    readme_path = os.path.join(cwd, 'README.md')
+    if not os.path.exists(readme_path):
+        return pylink.__long_description__
+
+    try:
+        import pypandoc
+        return pypandoc.convert(readme_path, 'rst')
+    except (IOError, ImportError):
+        pass
+
+    return open(readme_path, 'r').read()
+
+
 setuptools.setup(
     # Project information.
     name='pylink-square',
@@ -213,7 +235,7 @@ def run(self):
     author=pylink.__author__,
     author_email=pylink.__author_email__,
     description=pylink.__description__,
-    long_description=pylink.__long_description__,
+    long_description=long_description(),
     license=pylink.__license__,
     keywords='SEGGER J-Link',
     url=pylink.__url__,