Leveraging find_packages in setup.py

[WillAyd]

Right now when creating new folders we have to also list them as packages in the setup.py file. Is there any reason why we have not considered using find_packages as suggested by the Python Packaging User Guide to take care of that?

Happy to submit a PR just not an expert on packaging, so wanted to discuss what if any caveats are out there first before making any changes

[jreback]

no we should switch to find_packages

it didn’t exist in older setup tools (in theory we should have a min in setup tools but it can be pretty loose)