Replaced deprecated setup.py with setup.cfg #310
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Also bumped version to 0.7.5, with packaging being the only change.
The old setup.py method is deprecated and will be removed in future python3 versions. The rationale behind this is that the setup.py script runs arbitrary code at install time.
Our setup.py file used to dynamically determine the current version at install time by querying git. While this makes it more forgiving as a developer (setting a new tag is enough, no version update in any file is necessary) it's generally bad practice.
I suggest setting a github action that fills this role, if possible. Otherwise we must remember to manually update the "version" attribute in the setup.cfg file when releasing a new version.