Minimal metadata required for Python packaging.

Renamed .md file to .txt and made a soft link from README.rst
to the .txt file. This allows both Python packaging tools to do
the correct thing as well as providing a nicely rendered README
on github.

README.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+README.txt

setup.py

@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ def parse_version(module_file):
     match = re.findall("__version__ = '([^']+)'", s)
     return match[0]
 
+f = open("README.txt")
+ga4gh_readme = f.read()
+f.close()
 ga4gh_version = parse_version("ga4gh/__init__.py") 
 
 requirements = []
@@ -29,7 +32,11 @@ def parse_version(module_file):
 setup(
     name = "ga4gh",
     version = ga4gh_version,
+    long_description = ga4gh_readme,
     packages = ["ga4gh"], 
+    author = "AUTHOR FIXME",
+    author_email = "[email protected]",
+    url = "http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ga4gh", 
     scripts = ["scripts/ga4gh_ref.py"],
     install_requires = requirements,
 )