[Distutils] Basic Markdown Readme Support

[Alexander Walters]

The justification was "Because Github et. al. support markdown, pypi 
should too", presumably for the purpose of allowing one to write their 
README once, and have it work in both places.  This is already possible, 
and only adds unneeded complexity to an already complex system.  If you 
want to make your README a write-once document, use the format already 
supported on both platforms.

On 5/3/2016 00:27, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>
> On 3 May 2016 4:19 PM, "Alexander Walters" <tritium-list at sdamon.com 
> <mailto:tritium-list at sdamon.com>> wrote:
> >
> > I am -1 on this on the basis that the services mentioned also 
> happily support restructured text READMEs
>
> I don't understand why that makes you say no to the ability to support 
> markdown.
>
> Rob
>