Setuptools related improvements #810

Job	Run time
Run linters with pre-commit	1m 1s
Determine Python versions	7s
Test building the documentation	1m 53s
Python 3.12 on ubuntu-20.04 (standalone: false, 32bit: false)	29m 0s
Python 3.12 on ubuntu-20.04 (standalone: false, 32bit: true)	43m 28s
Python 3.12 on ubuntu-20.04 (standalone: true, 32bit: false)	23m 21s
Python 3.12 on ubuntu-20.04 (standalone: true, 32bit: true)	40m 57s
Python 3.12 on windows-2019 (standalone: false, 32bit: false)	1h 15m 26s
Python 3.12 on windows-2019 (standalone: false, 32bit: true)	1h 10m 57s
Python 3.12 on windows-2019 (standalone: true, 32bit: false)	25m 32s
Python 3.12 on windows-2019 (standalone: true, 32bit: true)	44m 28s
Python 3.12 on macOS-11 (standalone: false, 32bit: false)	53m 32s
Python 3.12 on macOS-11 (standalone: false, 32bit: true)	47m 8s
Python 3.12 on macOS-11 (standalone: true, 32bit: false)	29m 30s
Python 3.12 on macOS-11 (standalone: true, 32bit: true)	28m 31s
Python 3.9 on ubuntu-20.04 (standalone: false, 32bit: false)	26m 58s
Python 3.9 on ubuntu-20.04 (standalone: true, 32bit: false)	20m 12s
Indicate completion to coveralls.io	13s
	9h 22m 14s

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