From e5713624d199563c8e8c5af37ef5bad3c41fcc93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kiyoshi Masui <kiyo@physics.ubc.ca>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 15:44:26 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Read README to get description.

---
 setup.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6f6bf5e4..912ab3a5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -273,6 +273,9 @@ def finalize_options(self):
     requires = f.read().splitlines()
     requires = [r.split()[0] for r in requires]
 
+with open('README.rst') as r:
+    long_description = r.read()
+
 # TODO hdf5 support should be an "extra". Figure out how to set this up.
 setup(
     name='bitshuffle',
@@ -291,6 +294,7 @@ def finalize_options(self):
     author="Kiyoshi Wesley Masui",
     author_email="kiyo@physics.ubc.ca",
     description="Bitshuffle filter for improving typed data compression.",
+    long_description=long_description,
     license="MIT",
     url="https://github.com/kiyo-masui/bitshuffle",
     download_url=("https://github.com/kiyo-masui/bitshuffle/tarball/%s"