Update setup.py

[Brainor]

While I trying to submit this package to conda-forge, the checks threw an error.
I guess it's about the encoding in reading file; according to document, the encoding used in Windows system is cp936 in China, not utf-8; but the README.md file contains emoji characters, which can't be read with cp936 encoding.
Could you please update the pypi package if it's OK with you? 😱

[Brainor]

Hey, dear rsalmei, like I said in this issue before, conda-forge is a platform; what I will do is just submitting this package to conda-forge, you are still the maintainer to the conda-forge package repo (like this one), which is created by conda-forge, not by me.

[TheTechRobo]

@rsalmei ping

[rsalmei]

Sorry, I haven't seen this before. Merged.

[rsalmei]

Oh, do I have to also publish it to PyPI @Brainor, or just merge it is enough?

[Brainor]

Oh, it's OK now. I closed the PR because I used the patch in the conda-forge feedstock to modify the setup.py file, and it's succeesfully on the conda-forge channel today. (You can see it here.)
So you don't need to publish it to PyPI now.

If you are interested in maintaining the conda-forge package aside from the PyPI one, all you need to do is to become the maintainer of the about-time-feedstock repo . According to the manual, just opening an issue in the feedstock repository with the following title: @conda-forge-admin, please add user @rsalmei :) From what I know, the bot in conda-forge can automatically update conda-forge-about-time package if there is a update in PyPI-about-time package so you can totally leave it be.

I've also proposed the alive-progress package update in the PR waiting to be approved just so you know:)

[rsalmei]

That's excellent, thank you 👍

I love messages like yours, full of links so one can go deeper if needed. I did enter them all, but I know nothing about conda, mamba, or feedstocks, so I think I'll let them to people like you, who knows what he is doing...

Thanks for the alive-progress one as well!

[Brainor]

Oh thank you:)
Correct me if I'm wrong. Just like PyPI using pip install about-time to install package, you can use conda install about-time to install it; I'm sure you already know this. And many people (including me) think conda can manage environments and packages better than pypi but not too different from each other.
About-time-feedstock manages the about-time package used in conda system; it can adapt the about-time package from PyPI into the conda system automatically.

I'm also totally new to the feedstock thing, I just learn this stuff to make alive-progress's new version available in conda in the first place because alive-progress is really good lol
BTW, maybe you can update the alive-progress setup.py's about-time version to the newest in the next update now that about-time is 4.1 already.