Move to news files for changelog via towncrier. (#1234)boostrap

Closes #1230.

Co-Authored-By: Sia Agarwal <44545228+thisissia@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Deniz Taneli <7292227+dtaneli@users.noreply.github.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f293396..d543d66 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -52,25 +52,7 @@ def read_file(*paths):
 # Get long_description from index.rst:
 long_description_full = read_file("docs", "index.rst")
 long_description = long_description_full.strip().split("split here", 1)[0]
-# Add release history
-changes = read_file("docs", "changes.rst")
-# Only report last two releases for brevity
-releases_found = 0
-change_lines = []
-for line in changes.splitlines():
-    change_lines.append(line)
-    if line.startswith("--------------"):
-        releases_found += 1
-    if releases_found > 2:
-        break
-
-changes = "\n".join(change_lines[:-2]) + "\n"
-changes += "`Full Changelog <https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/changes.html>`_."
-# Replace issue/pull directives
-changes = re.sub(r":pull:`(\d+)`", r"PR #\1", changes)
-changes = re.sub(r":issue:`(\d+)`", r"#\1", changes)
-
-long_description += "\n\n" + changes
+long_description += "\n\n`Read the changelog here <https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/changes.html>`_."
 
 
 def get_version():
@@ -128,7 +110,7 @@ setup(
             'xonsh; python_version>="3.4"',
             "six >= 1.10.0, < 2",
         ],
-        "docs": ["sphinx >= 1.8.0, < 2"],
+        "docs": ["sphinx >= 1.8.0, < 2", "towncrier >= 18.5.0"],
     },
     **setup_params
 )