diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
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@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+[build-system]
+requires =[
+    "setuptools >=61.0.0",
+    "setuptools_scm",
+    "wheel"
+]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "wavedrom"
+version = "3.1.0"
+description = "WaveDrom compatible python command line"
+readme = "README.md"
+license = {text = "MIT License"}
+authors = [
+    {name = "Aliaksei Chapyzhenka"},
+    {name = "BreizhGeek"},
+    {name = "Kazuki Yamamoto", email = "k4zuki@github.com"},
+    {name = "Stefan Wallentowitz", email = "stefan@wallentowitz.de"},
+]
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
+    "Environment :: Console",
+    "Environment :: Web Environment",
+    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "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",
+    "Topic :: Documentation",
+    "Topic :: Utilities",
+]
+requires-python = ">=3.7"
+dependencies = [
+    "Sphinx>=1.6.3",
+    "svgwrite",
+    "six",
+    "pyyaml"
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+    Homepage = "https://github.com/wallento/wavedrompy"
+    Download = "https://pypi.org/project/wavedrom/"
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+CairoSVG = [
+    "cairosvg>=1.0",
+]
+
+[tool.setuptools_scm]
+write_to = "wavedrom/version.py"
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+py-modules = []
+packages = ["wavedrom"]
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
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@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-
-[bdist_wheel]
-# This flag says to generate wheels that support both Python 2 and Python
-# 3. If your code will not run unchanged on both Python 2 and 3, you will
-# need to generate separate wheels for each Python version that you
-# support.
-universal=1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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-"""A setuptools based setup module.
-See:
-https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/distributing.html
-https://github.com/pypa/sampleproject
-"""
-
-# Always prefer setuptools over distutils
-import sys
-
-from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-# To use a consistent encoding
-from codecs import open
-from os import path
-
-here = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))
-
-# Get the long description from the README file
-with open(path.join(here, "README.md"), encoding="utf-8") as f:
-    long_description = f.read()
-
-# Arguments marked as "Required" below must be included for upload to PyPI.
-# Fields marked as "Optional" may be commented out.
-
-requires = ["svgwrite",
-            "six", # 2 and 3 compatibility
-            "pyyaml"
-            ]
-setup(
-    # This is the name of your project. The first time you publish this
-    # package, this name will be registered for you. It will determine how
-    # users can install this project, e.g.:
-    #
-    # $ pip install sampleproject
-    #
-    # And where it will live on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/sampleproject/
-    #
-    # There are some restrictions on what makes a valid project name
-    # specification here:
-    # https://packaging.python.org/specifications/core-metadata/#name
-    name="wavedrom",  # Required
-
-    # Versions should comply with PEP 440:
-    # https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/
-    #
-    # For a discussion on single-sourcing the version across setup.py and the
-    # project code, see
-    # https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/single_source_version.html
-    use_scm_version={
-        "relative_to": __file__,
-        "write_to": "wavedrom/version.py",
-    },
-
-    # This is a one-line description or tagline of what your project does. This
-    # corresponds to the "Summary" metadata field:
-    # https://packaging.python.org/specifications/core-metadata/#summary
-    description="WaveDrom compatible python command line",  # Required
-
-    # This is an optional longer description of your project that represents
-    # the body of text which users will see when they visit PyPI.
-    #
-    # Often, this is the same as your README, so you can just read it in from
-    # that file directly (as we have already done above)
-    #
-    # This field corresponds to the "Description" metadata field:
-    # https://packaging.python.org/specifications/core-metadata/#description-optional
-    long_description=long_description,  # Optional
-    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
-
-    # This should be a valid link to your project"s main homepage.
-    #
-    # This field corresponds to the "Home-Page" metadata field:
-    # https://packaging.python.org/specifications/core-metadata/#home-page-optional
-    url="https://github.com/wallento/wavedrompy",  # Optional
-
-    # This should be your name or the name of the organization which owns the
-    # project.
-    author="Aliaksei Chapyzhenka, BreizhGeek, Kazuki Yamamoto, Stefan Wallentowitz",  # Optional
-
-    # This should be a valid email address corresponding to the author listed
-    # above.
-    author_email="k4zuki@github.com, stefan@wallentowitz.de",  # Optional
-
-    # Classifiers help users find your project by categorizing it.
-    #
-    # For a list of valid classifiers, see
-    # https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=list_classifiers
-    classifiers=[  # Optional
-        # How mature is this project? Common values are
-        #   3 - Alpha
-        #   4 - Beta
-        #   5 - Production/Stable
-        "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
-
-        # Indicate who your project is intended for
-        "Intended Audience :: Developers",
-        "Topic :: Software Development :: Build Tools",
-
-        # Pick your license as you wish
-        "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
-
-        # Specify the Python versions you support here. In particular, ensure
-        # that you indicate whether you support Python 2, Python 3 or both.
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3"
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10"
-    ],
-
-    # This field adds keywords for your project which will appear on the
-    # project page. What does your project relate to?
-    #
-    # Note that this is a string of words separated by whitespace, not a list.
-    keywords="wavedrom svg",  # Optional
-
-    # You can just specify package directories manually here if your project is
-    # simple. Or you can use find_packages().
-    #
-    # Alternatively, if you just want to distribute a single Python file, use
-    # the `py_modules` argument instead as follows, which will expect a file
-    # called `my_module.py` to exist:
-    #
-    #   py_modules=["my_module"],
-    #
-    packages=find_packages(exclude=["contrib", "docs", "tests"]),  # Required
-
-    # This field lists other packages that your project depends on to run.
-    # Any package you put here will be installed by pip when your project is
-    # installed, so they must be valid existing projects.
-    #
-    # For an analysis of "install_requires" vs pip"s requirements files see:
-    # https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/requirements.html
-    install_requires=requires,  # Optional
-
-    # The minimum required Python version for installation
-    python_requires='>=3.7',
-
-    # List additional groups of dependencies here (e.g. development
-    # dependencies). Users will be able to install these using the "extras"
-    # syntax, for example:
-    #
-    #   $ pip install sampleproject[dev]
-    #
-    # Similar to `install_requires` above, these must be valid existing
-    # projects.
-    extras_require={  # Optional
-        # "dev": ["check-manifest"],
-        "test": [
-            "xmldiff",
-            #Per release notes, Python 2 support dropped at version 2.0.0
-            "cairosvg<2" if sys.version_info.major < 3 else "cairosvg",
-            "pillow"
-        ],
-    },
-
-    setup_requires=[
-        'setuptools_scm',
-    ],
-
-    # If there are data files included in your packages that need to be
-    # installed, specify them here.
-    #
-    # If using Python 2.6 or earlier, then these have to be included in
-    # MANIFEST.in as well.
-    package_data={  # Optional
-        # "sample": ["package_data.dat"],
-    },
-
-    # Although "package_data" is the preferred approach, in some case you may
-    # need to place data files outside of your packages. See:
-    # http://docs.python.org/3.4/distutils/setupscript.html#installing-additional-files
-    #
-    # In this case, "data_file" will be installed into "<sys.prefix>/my_data"
-    data_files=[
-        # ("my_data", ["data/data_file"]),
-    ],  # Optional
-
-    # To provide executable scripts, use entry points in preference to the
-    # "scripts" keyword. Entry points provide cross-platform support and allow
-    # `pip` to create the appropriate form of executable for the target
-    # platform.
-    #
-    # For example, the following would provide a command called `sample` which
-    # executes the function `main` from this package when invoked:
-    entry_points={  # Optional
-        "console_scripts": [
-            "wavedrompy=wavedrom:main",
-        ],
-    },
-)