Preparation for 1.0.0rc1

Makefile

@@ -11,12 +11,13 @@ clean:
 
 minimal:    clean
 	cp pyfiglet/fonts-standard/* pyfiglet/fonts
-	python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+	python3 -m build
 
 full:    clean
 	cp pyfiglet/fonts-standard/* pyfiglet/fonts
 	cp pyfiglet/fonts-contrib/* pyfiglet/fonts
-	python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+	python3 -m build
 
 publish:
-	python setup.py upload
+	python3 -m twine check dist/*
+	python3 -m twine upload dist/*

README.rst → README.md

@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 # **pyfiglet**
 
 ```
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 ```
+
 ## **Synopsis**
 
 pyfiglet is a full port of FIGlet (http://www.figlet.org/) into pure

pyfiglet/version.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '0.8.post1'
+__version__ = '1.0.0rc1'

pyproject.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=68.0.0"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta:__legacy__"

setup.py

@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ def get_version():
     name='pyfiglet',
     version=get_version(),
     description='Pure-python FIGlet implementation',
+    long_description=open("README.md").read(),
+    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
     license='MIT',
     classifiers=[
         'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',