Have you taken a look at [PEP 517](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0517/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0517/) ? It enables other tools to replace setu

Have you taken a look at [PEP 517](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0517/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0517/) ? It enables other tools to replace setup.py (e.g., poetry is pretty nice for making easy-to-package-and-publish pure python libraries).