Move metadata to pyproject.toml

description.rst

@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ are:
 * it is usable as a command-line tool and as a library
 
 Copyright 2006-2022 by the Pygments team, see ``AUTHORS``.
-Licensed under the BSD, see ``LICENSE`` for details.
+Licensed under the BSD, see ``LICENSE`` for details.

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,60 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = [
-  "setuptools >= 40.9.0",
-  "wheel",
+# setuptools added pyproject.toml support in v61.0.0
+requires = ["setuptools >= 61"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "Pygments"
+dynamic = ["version"]
+requires-python = ">=3.7"
+license = {text = "BSD-2-Clause"}
+authors = [
+  {name = "Georg Brandl", email = "georg@python.org"}
 ]
-build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta:__legacy__"
+maintainers = [
+  {name = "Georg Brandl", email = "georg@python.org"},
+  {name = "Matthäus G. Chajdas"},
+  {name = "Jean Abou Samra", email = "jean@abou-samra.fr"},
+]
+description = "Pygments is a syntax highlighting package written in Python."
+# For PyPI, use a shorter description than README.rst.
+readme = {file = "description.rst", content-type = "text/x-rst"}
+keywords = ["syntax highlighting"]
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 6 - Mature",
+    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+    "Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop",
+    "Intended Audience :: System Administrators",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License",
+    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+    "Programming Language :: Python",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy",
+    "Topic :: Text Processing :: Filters",
+    "Topic :: Utilities",
+]
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+plugins = ["importlib-metadata;python_version<'3.8'"]
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://pygments.org"
+Documentation = "https://pygments.org/docs"
+Source = "https://github.com/pygments/pygments"
+"Bug Tracker" = "https://github.com/pygments/pygments/issues"
+Changelog = "https://github.com/pygments/pygments/blob/master/CHANGES"
+
+[project.scripts]
+pygmentize = "pygments.cmdline:main"
+
+[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
+version = {attr = "pygments.__version__" }
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+include = ["pygments", "pygments.*"]

scripts/release-checklist

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Release checklist
 * LATER when configured properly: ``make pylint``
 * ``tox``
 * Update version in ``pygments/__init__.py``
-* Check setup.py metadata: long description, trove classifiers
+* Check pyproject.toml metadata: long description, trove classifiers
 * Update release date/code name in ``CHANGES``
 * ``git commit``
 * Wait for the CI to finish