Update setup.py

add readme.txt to release for standalone zip files

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-    
+
     - name: Create GitHub release
       uses: actions/create-release@v1
       id: create_release
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ jobs:
           pip install -r requirements.txt
           pip install .
           pyinstaller -F -n meshtastic --collect-all meshtastic --codesign-identity "$MACOS_SIGNING_IDENTITY" meshtastic/__main__.py
-  
+
       - name: Add mac to release
         uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1
         env:
@@ -107,12 +107,12 @@ jobs:
           asset_path: dist/meshtastic
           asset_name: meshtastic_mac
           asset_content_type: application/zip
-  
+
   build-and-publish-ubuntu:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: release_create
     steps:
-          
+
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
 
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ jobs:
           pip install -r requirements.txt
           pip install .
           pyinstaller -F -n meshtastic --collect-all meshtastic meshtastic/__main__.py
-  
+
       - name: Add ubuntu to release
         uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1
         env:
@@ -137,6 +137,16 @@ jobs:
           asset_path: dist/meshtastic
           asset_name: meshtastic_ubuntu
           asset_content_type: application/zip
+          
+      - name: Add readme.txt to release
+        uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          upload_url: ${{ needs.release_create.outputs.upload_url }}
+          asset_path: standalone_readme.txt
+          asset_name: readme.txt
+          asset_content_type: text/plain          
 
   build-and-publish-windows:
     runs-on: windows-latest

setup.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ with open("README.md", "r") as fh:
 # This call to setup() does all the work
 setup(
     name="meshtastic",
-    version="1.2.73",
+    version="1.2.75",
     description="Python API & client shell for talking to Meshtastic devices",
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",

standalone_readme.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+readme.txt for single standalone executable zip files that can be
+downloaded from https://github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastic-python/releases
+
+If you do not want to install python and/or the python libraries, you can download one of these
+zip files to run the Meshtastic command line interface (CLI) as a standalone executable.
+
+See https://meshtastic.org/docs/software/python/python-standalone for more info.