[PROTON-2815] [Python] Use up to date tooling to produce python packages

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: proton-c-0.39.0
• Component/s: python-binding
• Assignee: Andrew Stitcher
• Reporter: Andrew Stitcher
• Created: 17/Apr/24 18:02
• Updated: 19/Apr/24 22:53
• Resolved: 19/Apr/24 22:53

Description

Using setup.py as a python script to produce python packages/install packages etc has been deprecated for a little while and will be going away from python soon.

We should update our build to use a supported tool to build our packages.

The simplest approach would be to use the 'build' module with the setuptools backend.