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Clean up setuptools based build

Merged Le Nam Do requested to merge setuptools-PEP-517 into develop

This MR done by @tyburn and myself adopts PEP 517, which standardises how Python tooling is configured. Eventually, the goal is to specify everything tooling related in pyproject.toml, i.e.

  • the build (currently setuptools)
  • test tools (in our case pytest)
  • linters,
  • code formatters,
  • ...

We hope that setup.py and setup.cfg can be merged into pyproject.toml in the future.

Some dependencies and code that is no longer used were removed.

Installation of the library can now be achieved by

pip install path-to-library # installs only the library
pip install path-to-library[tests] # installs the library and test dependencies
pip install path-to-library[tests,docs,coverage] # installs the library and all developer dependencies

The arguments in the square brackets are specified in setup.cfg under [options.extras_require].

Edited by Le Nam Do