Migrate setup.py metadata to setup.cfg

[lieryan]

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[lieryan]

Currently, setuptools does not support putting most project metadata in pyproject.toml. It still only supports reading metadata from setup.cfg. So this is not possible right now. If you want a fully pyproject.toml-based project, you'll need to move off setuptools. Currently, we have a rather simple build process, so setuptools works just fine for us, so it's unlikely we'll move off setuptools in the foreseeable future.

Changing the scope of this ticket to move metadata into setup.cfg instead.

[lieryan]

It seem like build might allow us to do away with setuptools/setup.py entirely, so doing a full pyproject.toml might actually be possible here.

[bagel897]

Build is a frontend to the pyproject.toml build backends. I have written a pyproject.toml, which works for normal installs. However, setuptools does not support editable installations yet with pyproject.toml. Options are to use the PDM (or another PEP 660 compliant backend) or wait for setuptools to update.

[bagel897]

This issue can be closed #473

[lieryan]

Thanks @bageljrkhanofemus. We've already been building using build for some time. With the pyproject.toml migration, this is no longer necessary.