ENH: create wheels with cibuildwheel

Author: wolfidan

.github/workflows/publish_pypi.yml

@@ -1,30 +1,32 @@
-name: Publish Python 🐍 distributions 📦 to PyPI and TestPyPI
+name: Build and publish to PyPI
 
 on:
   release:
     types: [published]
 
 jobs:
-  build-n-publish:
-    name: Build and publish Python 🐍 distributions 📦 to PyPI and TestPyPI
+  build:
+    name: Build wheels for all supported Python versions
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@master
-    - name: Set up Python 3.10
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v3
-      with:
-        python-version: "3.10"
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
-    - name: Install pypa/build
-      run: python -m pip install build --user
+      - name: Set up Python (for pip/cibuildwheel)
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.10"
 
-    - name: Build a binary wheel and a source tarball
-      run:
-        python -m build --wheel --sdist --outdir dist/
+      - name: Install cibuildwheel
+        run: python -m pip install cibuildwheel
 
-    - name: Publish distribution 📦 to PyPI
-      if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags')
-      uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
-      with:
-        password: ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Build wheels with cibuildwheel
+        run: python -m cibuildwheel --output-dir dist
+        env:
+          CIBW_SKIP: "pp* cp27* cp36*"
+
+      - name: Publish to PyPI
+        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags')
+        uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
+        with:
+          password: ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }}

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
-  "setuptools",
-  "setuptools_scm>=6.2",
-  "wheel",
-  "cython",
-  "oldest-supported-numpy",
-  "numpy>=2.0.0rc1"
+    "setuptools",
+    "setuptools_scm>=6.2",
+    "wheel",
+    "cython",
+    "oldest-supported-numpy",
+    "numpy>=2.0.0rc1"
 ]
-
+backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [tool.black]
 line-length = 88
@@ -41,4 +41,3 @@ select = [
     # Pyupgrade
     "UP",
 ]
-