Switch to flit build backend (#262)

Author: blink1073

.flake8

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+[flake8]
+ignore = E501, W503, E402
+builtins = c, get_config
+exclude =
+    .cache,
+    .github,
+    docs,
+    setup.py
+enable-extensions = G
+extend-ignore =
+    G001, G002, G004, G200, G201, G202,
+    # black adds spaces around ':'
+    E203,
+per-file-ignores =
+    # B011: Do not call assert False since python -O removes these calls
+    # F841 local variable 'foo' is assigned to but never used
+    jupyter_core/tests/*: B011, F841

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -72,12 +72,6 @@ repos:
               scripts/jupyter
             )$
 
-  - repo: https://github.com/mgedmin/check-manifest
-    rev: "0.48"
-    hooks:
-      - id: check-manifest
-        stages: [manual]
-
   - repo: https://github.com/sirosen/check-jsonschema
     rev: 0.14.3
     hooks:

MANIFEST.in

@@ -1,6 +1,55 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=60.0"]
-build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+requires = ["flit_core >=3.2,<4"]
+build-backend = "flit_core.buildapi"
+
+[project]
+name = "jupyter_core"
+description = "Jupyter core package. A base package on which Jupyter projects rely."
+license = { file = "COPYING.md" }
+classifiers = [
+  "Framework :: Jupyter",
+  "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+  "Intended Audience :: System Administrators",
+  "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
+  "License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License",
+  "Programming Language :: Python",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3"
+]
+requires-python = ">=3.7"
+dependencies = [
+  "traitlets",
+  "pywin32>=1.0 ; sys_platform == 'win32' and platform_python_implementation != 'PyPy'"
+]
+dynamic = ["version"]
+
+[[project.authors]]
+name = "Jupyter Development Team"
+email = "[email protected]"
+
+[project.readme]
+text = "There is no reason to install this package on its own."
+content-type = "text/plain"
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://jupyter.org"
+Documentation = "https://jupyter-core.readthedocs.io/"
+Funding = "https://numfocus.org/"
+Source = "https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter_core"
+Tracker = "https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter_core/issues"
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+test = [
+  "ipykernel",
+  "pre-commit",
+  "pytest",
+  "pytest-cov",
+  "pytest-timeout"
+]
+
+[project.scripts]
+jupyter = "jupyter_core.command:main"
+jupyter-migrate = "jupyter_core.migrate:main"
+jupyter-troubleshoot = "jupyter_core.troubleshoot:main"
 
 [tool.mypy]
 check_untyped_defs = true