Use PyPA's build project to build sdist and wheel

[michael-k]

A good introduction to PEP 517: https://snarky.ca/what-the-heck-is-pyproject-toml/

build is PyPA's recommended tool (and also maintained by PyPA) to build projects using PEP 517/518, see pypa/packaging-problems#219 (comment)

More information about build (docs, changelog, …) is available at https://pypi.org/project/build/

PEP 517: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0517/
PEP 518: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/

[michael-k]

@markpeek since you're building locally, build might be of interest for you. It's the most modern way to build setuptools¹ based projects I know of.

¹Apart from setuptools there are poetry and flit (and maybe other projects that I haven't heard of), but I've never used any of them.

[markpeek]

Thanks!