[Feature Request]: Upgrade setup.py to pyproject.toml

[davidcavazos]

What would you like to happen?

Installing apache-beam gives a deprecation warning because it uses a setup.py file to configure the installation, which will be deprecated in pip 23.1 in favor of a pyproject.toml file.

How to reproduce:

python -m venv env
source env/bin/activate

pip install apache-beam

Shows the following warning:

DEPRECATION: apache-beam is being installed using the legacy 'setup.py install' method, because it does not have a 'pyproject.toml' and the 'wheel' package is not installed. pip 23.1 will enforce this behaviour change. A possible replacement is to enable the '--use-pep517' option. Discussion can be found at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8559

pip version 23.1 is targeted to release by April 30, by then the setup.py file will be deprecated.

PEP-621 describes more context on why this change and how to upgrade. The good news is that the pyproject.toml file is declarative instead of containing arbitrary code, which makes writing it and maintaining it much simpler than the setup.py file.

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Priority: 2 (default / most feature requests should be filed as P2)

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[AnandInguva]

Related issues: #20051.

Some previous work: #10038

[AnandInguva]

.take-issue

[AnandInguva]

Using setup.py along with pyproject.toml is fine but using setup.py install, setup.py sdist are deprecated. I am working on a PR that would add a simple pyproject.toml file.

For more information, pypa/pip#8559