Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Calling setup.py is deprecated, in favor or pyproject.toml with various build backends

Describe the solution you'd like
Update the metadata + scripts and CI files for modern tools.
uv looks most interesting right now: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Poetry: non standard toml
• Pdm: pretty good overall, just slower
• Hatch: not so active
• flit: not so active
• rye: replaced by uv
• setuptools: easiest conversion, feels outdated in comparison

Additional context
https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/modernize-setup-py-project/
https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/key_projects/#