- Bump the Python requirement.
- Fix type hints.
- Use loky to avoid deadlock.
- Workaround cupy-numpy compatibility issue on Windows caused by the `safe` casting rule.
- Simplify the repartitioning logic to avoid dask errors.
* Create pyproject.toml
* Implement a custom build backend (see below) in packager directory. Build logic from setup.py has been refactored and migrated into the new backend.
* Tested: pip wheel . (build wheel), python -m build --sdist . (source distribution)
