Get rid of deprecated setuptools.config.read_configuration

RELEASING.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Following are notes for releasing NumExpr.
 Preliminaries
 -------------
 
-* Make sure that `RELEASE_NOTES.rst` and `ANNOUNCE.rst` are up to date with the latest news in the release.
+* Make sure that `RELEASE_NOTES.rst` and `ANNOUNCE.rst` are up-to-date with the latest news in the release.
 * Ensure that there is no branch in the version in `setup.cfg`.
 * Do a commit and a push:
 

setup.py

@@ -11,15 +11,16 @@
 
 import os, os.path as op
 from setuptools import setup, Extension
-from setuptools.config import read_configuration
 import platform
+import configparser
 import numpy as np
 
 with open('requirements.txt') as f:
     requirements = f.read().splitlines()
 
 with open('numexpr/version.py', 'w') as fh:
-    cfg = read_configuration("setup.cfg")
+    cfg = configparser.ConfigParser()
+    cfg.read('setup.cfg')
     fh.write('# THIS FILE IS GENERATED BY `SETUP.PY`\n')
     fh.write("version = '%s'\n" % cfg['metadata']['version'])
     try:
@@ -54,12 +55,11 @@ def parse_site_cfg():
     """
     Parses `site.cfg`, if it exists, to determine the location of Intel oneAPI MKL.
 
-    To compile NumExpr with MKL (VML) support, typically you need to copy the 
-    provided `site.cfg.example` to `site.cfg` and then edit the paths in the 
-    configuration lines for `include_dirs` and `library_dirs` paths to point 
+    To compile NumExpr with MKL (VML) support, typically you need to copy the
+    provided `site.cfg.example` to `site.cfg` and then edit the paths in the
+    configuration lines for `include_dirs` and `library_dirs` paths to point
     to the appropriate directories on your machine.
     """
-    import configparser
     site = configparser.ConfigParser()
     if not op.isfile('site.cfg'):
         return
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ def parse_site_cfg():
             site['mkl']['libraries'].replace(os.pathsep, ',').split(','))
         def_macros.append(('USE_VML', None))
         print(f'FOUND MKL IMPORT')
-        
+
 
 def setup_package():