Update Python packaging according to PEP 517, 518

[jruebsam]

Build-independent format for source tree

This would be a desired feature somewhere in the near future. Currently a lot of python projects shift towards more advanced build tools like e.g.

https://python-poetry.org/ https://pipenv.pypa.io/en/latest/ https://pdm.fming.dev/

These tools require a build-independent format (which is often not relying on setuptools / distutils) furthermore these tools can satisfy deterministic builds easily.

The definition of this format is officially defined by PEP 517 and PEP 518, e.g.:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0517/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/

So basically what this means would be at some point to create a pyproject.toml which defines all mandatory build / version specifications.

Since this project doesn't rely on a lot of dependencies, I think for now this is not an important feature, but this should be addressed at some point in the future

Cheers