Adding more information for the PYPI README

setup.py

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 from distutils.core import setup
 import os
 
-# Write a versions.py file for class attribute
+#-Write Versions File-#
+#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~#
 
 VERSION = '0.1.6'
 
@@ -28,14 +29,77 @@ def write_version_py(filename=None):
     finally:
         fl.close()
 
-write_version_py()
+write_version_py()  # This is a file used to control the qe.__version__ attribute
 
-# Setup
+#-Meta Information-#
+#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~#
+
+DESCRIPTION = "QuantEcon is a package to support all forms of quantitative economic modelling."       #'Core package of the QuantEcon library'
+
+LONG_DESCRIPTION = """
+**QuantEcon** is an organization run by economists for economists with the aim of coordinating 
+distributed development of high quality open source code for all forms of quantitative economic modelling. 
+
+The project website is located at [http://quantecon.org/](http://quantecon.org/). This website provides
+more information with regards to the **quantecon** library, documentation, in addition to some resources 
+in regards to how you can use and/or contribute to the package. 
+
+## The **quantecon** Package
+
+The [repository](https://github.com/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py) includes the Python package `quantecon`
+
+Assuming you have [pip](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip) on your computer --- as will be the case if you've [installed Anaconda](http://quant-econ.net/getting_started.html#installing-anaconda) --- you can install the latest stable release of `quantecon` by typing
+
+    pip install quantecon
+
+at a terminal prompt
+
+## Repository
+
+The main repository is hosted on Github [QuantEcon.py](https://github.com/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py)
+
+Note
+----
+There is also a Julia version available for Julia users [QuantEcon.jl](https://github.com/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.jl)
+
+#### Current Build and Coverage Status:
+
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py)
+[![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py/badge.png)](https://coveralls.io/r/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py)
+
+## Additional Links
+
+1. [QuantEcon Course Website](http://quant-econ.net) 
+
+"""
+
+LICENSE = "BSD"
+
+#-Classifier Strings-#
+#-https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=list_classifiers-#
+CLASSIFIERS = [
+    'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
+    'Operating System :: OS Independent',
+    'Intended Audience :: Science/Research',
+    'Programming Language :: Python',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
+    'Topic :: Scientific/Engineering',
+]
+
+#-Setup-#
+#~~~~~~~#
 
 setup(name='quantecon',
       packages=['quantecon', 'quantecon.models', "quantecon.tests"],
       version=VERSION,
-      description='Core package of the QuantEcon library',
+      description=DESCRIPTION,
+      long_description=LONG_DESCRIPTION,
+      license=LICENSE,
+      classifiers=CLASSIFIERS,
       author='Thomas J. Sargent and John Stachurski (Project coordinators)',
       author_email='john.stachurski@gmail.com',
       url='https://github.com/QuantEcon/QuantEcon.py',  # URL to the repo