Moving the project to a pyproject.toml file

pyproject.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=78.0.2", "wheel"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "nixio"
+version = "1.5.4"
+description = "Python reimplementation of NIXIO (http://g-node.github.io/nix/)"
+readme = "README.rst"
+license-files = ["LICENSE"]
+authors = [
+    { name = "Christian Kellner" },
+    { name = "Adrian Stoewer" },
+    { name = "Andrey Sobolev" },
+    { name = "Jan Grewe" },
+    { name = "Balint Morvai" },
+    { name = "Achilleas Koutsou" }
+]
+maintainers = [
+    { name = "Christian Kellner", email = "[email protected]" },
+    { name = "Adrian Stoewer", email = "[email protected]" },
+    { name = "Andrey Sobolev", email = "[email protected]" },
+    { name = "Jan Grewe", email = "[email protected]" },
+    { name = "Balint Morvai", email = "[email protected]" },
+    { name = "Achilleas Koutsou", email = "[email protected]" }
+]
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
+dependencies = [
+    "numpy >= 1.26.0",
+    "h5py>= 2.0.0"
+]
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+    "Programming Language :: Python",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+    "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering"
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/G-Node/nixpy"
+Documentation= "https://nixpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html"
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+dev = [
+    "coveralls",
+    "pytest",
+    "pytest-cov",
+    "pillow",
+    "matplotlib",
+    "scipy",
+    "sphinx",
+    "sphinx_rtd_theme"
+]
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+include-package-data = true
+zip-safe = false
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+where = ["."]
+include = [
+    "nixio",
+    "nixio.hdf5",
+    "nixio.util",
+    "nixio.exceptions",
+    "nixio.cmd"
+]
+
+[project.scripts]
+nixio = "nixio.cmd.main:main"

setup.cfg

@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ all_files  = 1
 [upload_sphinx]
 upload-dir = build/docs
 
-[metadata]
-description_file = README.rst
-
 [aliases]
 test=pytest