chore: Migrate to pyproject.toml for package configuration #20

[ayeshurun]

📥 Pull Request

✨ Description of new changes

🚀 What's new?

This PR modernizes our Python packaging by migrating all configuration from requirements.txt, MANIFEST.in, and mypy.ini into a single pyproject.toml file. This aligns the project with modern Python packaging standards (PEP 621).

🔧 What was changed?

• pyproject.toml:

  • Consolidated all package metadata, dependencies, and tool configurations.
  • Dependencies are now defined in [project.dependencies].
  • Optional dependencies for development and documentation are grouped under [project.optional-dependencies] as dev and docs extras.
  • mypy configuration is now located in the [tool.mypy] section.

• CI/CD Workflows (.github/workflows/):

  • The build (fab-build.yml) and documentation (documentation.yml) workflows have been updated to use the new dependency groups (pip install -e .[docs], pip install build).

• Development Environment (scripts/install_dev_container_dependencies.sh):

  • The dev container setup script now installs dependencies using pip3 install --user -e .[dev], ensuring a consistent environment with the new configuration.

• 🗑️ Deleted Files:

  • requirements.txt
  • pytest.in
  • mypy.ini

🎯 Why was it changed?

• Standardization: Adopts the current best practices for Python packaging.
• Simplicity: Reduces the number of configuration files, making the project easier to navigate and maintain.
• Consistency: Ensures that dependency management is consistent across local development, CI, and packaging.