In the longer term, I think I will just take some time to write new python packaging code following PEP 517 and PEP 632, dropping usage of deprecated stuff altogether.

Originally posted by @amadio in #1830 (comment)

@henryiii also wrote

I'd try dropping in a pyproject.toml with:
[build-system]
requires = ["setuptools>=42"]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta
And just seeing what happens. I'd try that, but I'm not sure how to trigger the generation properly.

I think this is a great idea overall. There's a lot to modernize, especially as setup.py ends up calling packaging/wheel/install.sh

https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/blob/8e1e528232d8ead08468eefcbf991737eb5751da/packaging/wheel/setup.py#L168

I don't have time to contribute to this, but if there was someone else who wanted to give this a go, and if @henryiii thought scikit-build was ready, I think it would be super interesting to see XRootD jump right to using scikit-build (and hopefully missing a lot of pain along the way). People with much more experience than me though hopefully have some more informed thoughts.

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