From ff02e44062d76d0a0ed4249e4c1de85c40e33e6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ted Turocy <ted.turocy@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 10:31:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Some freshening of README.

---
 README.md | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 setup.py  |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ef95edb93..0a7f92375 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,10 +1,33 @@
-# Gambit
+<h1 style="text-align: center;">
+<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gambitproject/gambit/master/doc/_static/gambit.png"
+     width="300" alt="Gambit logo">
+</h1>
+<br/>
 
-This is the README file for Gambit, software tools for game theory.
+![Latest development version](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads-pre/gambitproject/gambit/latest/total?label=Latest%20development%20version)
+![PyPI - Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/pygambit?label=PyPI%20version)
+![PyPI - Downloads](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/pygambit?label=PyPI%20downloads)
+![PyPI - License](https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/pygambit)
 
-The latest information on Gambit can be obtained from the
-Gambit website at
-http://www.gambit-project.org
 
-Instructions on installing Gambit can be found in the
-file [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md) in this directory.
+**Gambit** is the package for doing computation in (non-cooperative) game theory.
+
+Gambit provides:
+
+- Structures to represent games in extensive and strategic form
+- Methods for building and modifying games
+- Representations of mixed strategy and mixed behavior profiles
+- Many algorithms for computing one or more Nash equilibria of games
+- Facilities for computing quantal response equilibria and fitting QREs to data
+
+
+## How to get Gambit
+
+Gambit's GitHub repository is at https://github.com/gambitproject/gambit.
+
+Official Gambit releases are available from
+[the releases section of the repository](https://github.com/gambitproject/gambit/releases)
+
+Gambit offers [the Python package `pygambit`](https://pypi.org/project/pygambit/),
+installable via PyPI.
+
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f9c614dc0..4e6ebc649 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def readme():
 setuptools.setup(
     name="pygambit",
     version="16.1.0a1",
-    description="Software tools for game theory",
+    description="Package for computation in game theory",
     long_description=readme(),
     classifiers=[
         "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ def readme():
         'Source': 'https://github.com/gambitproject/gambit',
         'Tracker': 'https://github.com/gambitproject/gambit/issues',
     },
-    python_requires=">=3.7",
+    python_requires=">=3.8",
     install_requires=[
         'lxml',  # used for reading/writing GTE files
         'numpy',