Use a declarative config?

[tomschr]

Situation

The generated project contains a setup.py. Although this file is small and doesn't have much in it, it doesn't follow a more declarative way.

Suggestion

Although it's not mandatory of course, we should follow a more declarative approach. For example, we could add all the meta data into setup.cfg and have a very minimal setup.py. See the link below for a more exhaustive description.

I think there are some benefits for this approach. We encourage developers to add meta data into setup.cfg, keeping setup.py small. It's probably a bit easier to move to pyproject.toml if someone wants to go that way. It's also more in sync with the modern way to package Python project.

References

https://setuptools.rtfd.io/en/latest/userguide/declarative_config.html