From e2dd1f69f65627e62edf655c603e339f676ea999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.analyst@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 04:41:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] BLD: Add pyproject.toml defining build requirements.

Fixes #1112.
See also #1035.
---
 MANIFEST.in    | 1 +
 pyproject.toml | 2 ++
 setup.py       | 7 -------
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 pyproject.toml

diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 68a876ff2..ff607c1a2 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ include CHANGES
 include COPYING*
 include INSTALL
 include README.rst
+include pyproject.toml
 include requirements/*.txt
 include lib/cartopy/data/*
 include lib/cartopy/io/srtm.npz
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..59314b980
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools", "wheel", "numpy>=1.10", "Cython>=0.15.1"]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b0409ac6f..785203f91 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -36,13 +36,6 @@
 import versioneer
 
 
-# Ensure build-time dependencies are available.
-# See https://stackoverflow.com/a/12061891
-setuptools.dist.Distribution(
-    dict(
-        setup_requires=['Cython>=0.15.1', 'numpy>=1.10']))
-
-
 try:
     from Cython.Distutils import build_ext
 except ImportError: