feat: adding in the pyproject.toml and setup.cfg for pip packaging

.gitignore

@@ -41,3 +41,18 @@ ehthumbs.db
 ################
 *~
 
+# Python packaging
+dist/
+build/
+*.egg-info/
+.eggs/
+.Python
+[Bb]in
+[Ii]nclude
+[Ll]ib
+[Ll]ib64
+[Ll]ocal
+[Ss]cripts
+pyvenv.cfg
+.venv
+pip-selfcheck.json

pyproject.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# pyproject.toml
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=61.0"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "loop_wrapper"
+version = "3.2.0"
+description = "loop_wrapper is a job-control tool to make it easier to loop through datetime ranges"
+readme = "README.md"
+requires-python = ">=3.6"
+license = "GPL-2.0-only"
+keywords = ["loop", "datetime", "job-control"]
+classifiers = [
+  "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+  "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
+  "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 :: 3.12",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
+]
+
+authors = [
+  { name="Thomas Lavergne", email="thomasl@met.no" },
+  { name="Mathew Duggan", email="mat@matduggan.com" },
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+  "python-dateutil>=2.9.0",
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+homepage = "https://github.com/metno/loop_wrapper"
+"Bug Tracker" = "https://github.com/metno/loop_wrapper/issues"
+documentation = "https://loop_wrapper.readthedocs.io/"

setup.cfg

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# setup.cfg
+[metadata]
+long_description = file: README.md
+long_description_content_type = text/markdown
+url = https://github.com/metno/loop_wrapper
+
+[options]
+packages = find:
+python_requires = >=3.6
+
+[options.packages.find]
+where = .