Moved the metadata into setup.cfg

setup.cfg

@@ -1,2 +1,36 @@
 [metadata]
-description-file = README.md
+name = autograd
+version = 1.2
+author = Dougal Maclaurin and David Duvenaud and Matthew Johnson
+author_email = maclaurin@physics.harvard.edu, duvenaud@cs.toronto.edu, mattjj@csail.mit.edu
+license = MIT
+license_file = license.txt
+description = Efficiently computes derivatives of numpy code.
+long_description = file: README.md
+long_description_content_type = text/markdown
+keywords =
+    Automatic differentiation
+    backpropagation
+    gradients
+    machine learning
+    optimization
+    neural networks
+    Python
+    Numpy
+    Scipy
+url = https://github.com/HIPS/autograd
+classifiers =
+    Development Status :: 4 - Beta
+    License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
+    Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
+    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5
+
+[options]
+packages =
+    autograd
+    autograd.numpy
+    autograd.scipy
+    autograd.scipy.stats
+    autograd.misc
+install_requires = numpy>=1.12; future>=0.15.2
+setup_requires = setuptools; setuptools_scm

setup.py

@@ -1,20 +1,2 @@
 from setuptools import setup
-
-setup(
-    name='autograd',
-    version='1.2',
-    description='Efficiently computes derivatives of numpy code.',
-    author='Dougal Maclaurin and David Duvenaud and Matthew Johnson',
-    author_email="maclaurin@physics.harvard.edu, duvenaud@cs.toronto.edu, mattjj@csail.mit.edu",
-    packages=['autograd', 'autograd.numpy', 'autograd.scipy', 'autograd.scipy.stats', 'autograd.misc'],
-    install_requires=['numpy>=1.12', 'future>=0.15.2'],
-    keywords=['Automatic differentiation', 'backpropagation', 'gradients',
-              'machine learning', 'optimization', 'neural networks',
-              'Python', 'Numpy', 'Scipy'],
-    url='https://github.com/HIPS/autograd',
-    license='MIT',
-    classifiers=['Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
-                 'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
-                 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
-                 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5'],
-)
+setup(use_scm_version=True)