From 9e502099e01bf50c7b760b8b3725220848d0db84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Grainger <tom@procensus.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 10:04:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add readme to package directly

---
 MANIFEST.in |  4 ++++
 setup.py    | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 MANIFEST.in

diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7682c1b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+include README.rst
+
+recursive-exclude * __pycache__
+recursive-exclude * *.py[co]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index aa5f2b08..5784283b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,14 +9,27 @@ from distutils.util import strtobool
 
 from setuptools import setup
 
-with codecs.open(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(
-        __file__)), 'sanic', '__init__.py'), 'r', 'latin1') as fp:
+
+def open_local(paths, mode='r', encoding='latin1'):
+    path = os.path.join(
+        os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)),
+        *paths
+    )
+
+    return codecs.open(path, mode, encoding)
+
+
+with open_local(['sanic', '__init__.py']) as fp:
     try:
         version = re.findall(r"^__version__ = '([^']+)'\r?$",
                              fp.read(), re.M)[0]
     except IndexError:
         raise RuntimeError('Unable to determine version.')
 
+
+with open_local(['README.rst']) as rm:
+    long_description = rm.read()
+
 setup_kwargs = {
     'name': 'sanic',
     'version': version,
@@ -26,6 +39,7 @@ setup_kwargs = {
     'author_email': 'channelcat@gmail.com',
     'description': (
         'A microframework based on uvloop, httptools, and learnings of flask'),
+    'long_description': long_description,
     'packages': ['sanic'],
     'platforms': 'any',
     'classifiers': [