Thoughts on updating package metadata

[ofek]

Feature request

Switch to modern Python packaging standards.

Motivation

The Python packaging ecosystem has standardized on the interface for build backends (PEP 517/PEP 660) and the format for metadata declaration (PEP 621/PEP 631). As a result, the execution of setup.py files is now deprecated.

So, I'm spending my free time updating important projects so that they are modernized and set an example for others 😄

Your contribution

I'll open a PR to show what that would look like.