attempt to move away from setup.py

latexgit/version.py

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 from typing import Final
 
 #: the version string of `latexgit`
-__version__: Final[str] = "0.8.7"
+__version__: Final[str] = "0.8.8"

setup.py

@@ -1,45 +1,4 @@
 """The setup and installation script."""
 
-import io
-import re
-
 from setuptools import setup
-
-# We want to use our README.md as project description.
-# However, we must fix all the references inside.
-with io.open("README.md",
-             "rt", encoding='utf-8-sig') as reader:
-    old_lines = reader.readlines()
-
-# It seems that the markdown parser does not auto-generate anchors. This means
-# that we need to fix all references following the pattern `[xxx](#12-hello)`
-# to `[xxx]({docu_url#hello)`, where `docu_url` is the url of our
-# documentation. We do this with a regular expression `regex_search`.
-new_lines = []
-in_code: bool = False  # we only process non-code lines
-# detects strings of the form [xyz](#123-bla) and gives \1=xyz and \2=bla
-regex_search = re.compile("(\\[.+?])\\(#\\d+-(.+?)\\)")
-regex_repl: str = \
-    "\\1(https://thomasweise.github.io/latexgit_py/index.html#\\2)"
-license_old: str = \
-    "https://github.com/thomasWeise/latexgit_py/blob/main/LICENSE"
-license_new: str = \
-    "https://thomasweise.github.io/latexgit_py/LICENSE.html"
-
-for line in old_lines:
-    line = line.rstrip()
-    if in_code:
-        if line.startswith("```"):
-            in_code = False  # toggle to non-code
-    else:
-        if line.startswith("```"):
-            in_code = True  # toggle to code
-        else:  # fix all internal urls
-            # replace links of the form "#12-bla" to "#bla"
-            line = re.sub(regex_search, regex_repl, line)
-            line = line.replace(license_old, license_new)
-    new_lines.append(line)
-
-# Now we can use the code in the setup.
-setup(long_description="\n".join(new_lines),
-      long_description_content_type="text/markdown")
+setup()