Converting install and build process to pip and pyproject.toml instead of setup.py

pyproject.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = [
+    "setuptools"
+]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "python-awips"
+version = "23.4.1"
+authors = [
+    { name="NSF Unidata", email="support-awips@ucar.edu" },
+]
+description = "A framework for requesting AWIPS meteorological datasets from an EDEX server"
+readme = "README.rst"
+license = { file = "LICENSE" }
+requires-python = ">=3.8"
+dependencies = [ "numpy"]
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+cdm = ["pyproj>=1.9.4"]
+dev = ["ipython[all]>=3.1"]
+doc = ["sphinx>=1.4", "sphinx-gallery", "doc8"]
+examples = ["cartopy>=0.13.1", "metpy>=0.4.0"]
+

setup.py

@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2017 UCAR Unidata Program Center.
-# Distributed under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause License.
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
-from __future__ import print_function
-import sys
-from distutils.core import setup
-from setuptools import find_packages
-
-dependencies = ['numpy']
-if sys.version_info < (3, 4):
-    dependencies.append('enum34')
-
-ver = "23.01"
-
-setup(
-    name='python-awips',
-    version=ver,
-    description='A framework for requesting AWIPS meteorological datasets from an EDEX server',
-    packages=find_packages(exclude='data'),
-    license='BSD',
-    url='http://unidata.github.io/python-awips',
-    author='NSF Unidata',
-    author_email='support-awips@ucar.edu',
-    install_requires=dependencies,
-    extras_require={
-        'cdm': ['pyproj>=1.9.4'],
-        'dev': ['ipython[all]>=3.1'],
-        'doc': ['sphinx>=1.4', 'sphinx-gallery', 'doc8'],
-        'examples': ['cartopy>=0.13.1', 'metpy>=0.4.0']
-    }
-)