fix: update release workflow and remove unnecessary tar.gz from .gitignore

Author: Mark Moberts

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -9,13 +9,25 @@ jobs:
   pypi-publish:
     name: upload release to PyPI
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    # Specifying a GitHub environment is optional, but strongly encouraged
     environment: pypi
     permissions:
-      # IMPORTANT: this permission is mandatory for Trusted Publishing
       id-token: write
     steps:
-      # retrieve your distributions here
+      - name: Check out repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.x'
+
+      - name: Install build dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install build wheel
+
+      - name: Build package
+        run: python -m build
 
       - name: Publish package distributions to PyPI
         uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1

.gitignore

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ interactive_console_output.xml
 
 #python files
 *.egg-info
-*.tar.gz
 venv/*
 
 # other