[Wheel-builders] Test Markdown support in READMEs

[Sumana Harihareswara]

On 03/16/2018 02:43 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> Dustin Ingram writes:
> https://dustingram.com/articles/2018/03/16/markdown-descriptions-on-pypi
> 
>> Finally!
>>
>> I’m really excited to say that as of today, PyPI supports rendering project descriptions from Markdown! This has been a oft-requested feature and after lots of work (including the creation of PEP 566) it is now possible, without translating Markdown to rST or any other hacks!
> 
>> Here are the steps necessary to make a new release with a Markdown description of your project...
> 
> We'd love to get your help testing this -- please try it and comment
> here on wheel-builders or in
> https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/869 if you see any problems.
> 
> And there's an open issue https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/231 about
> DESCRIPTION.rst in wheels, in case any of you can weigh in there!

Now that wheel 0.31.0 is out, Markdown descriptions should work fine
with wheels. Please do try it out! You can upload to Test PyPI if you
want to use a sandbox: https://packaging.python.org/guides/using-testpypi/

Thanks!

-- 
Sumana Harihareswara
Changeset Consulting
https://changeset.nyc