separate out most of docs index into a file without a toctree
so that the README.rst can be parsed by rst2html (and thus, PyPI) without error.
adding base version that can be imported.
manifest file for usage via setup.py
quick and dirty release script. exits early if invalid rst would be created.
quick and dirty setup.py implementation. It might work.
ignore a couple of things generated by `python setup.py […]`