Implement a simplified wheel builder (avoid undocumented pypa/wheel API) #3906
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Summary of changes
WheelBuilderclass that suits setuptools needs.This means that this class does not have to be generic and can be simplified.
This can be leveraged in the future when creating editable or regular wheels, while avoiding external and cyclic dependencies.
This is part of a series of PRs:
install_requiresandextra_requiresthat deviates from core metadata #3903PKG-INFO#3904pypa/wheelAPI indist_info#3905pypa/wheelAPI ineditable_wheel#3907bdist_wheelfrompypa/wheel#3908The motivation for this series of PRs is the following:
.egg-infoand.dist-infodirectories is intertwined and implicit(See Adopt bdist_wheel from wheel project #1386).
pypa/wheelAPI which is not stable yet and is very likely to change in the future.pypa/wheelmaintainers previously described that the long term vision is to transferbdist_wheeldirectly to
setuptools(See pypa/wheel#262, pypa/wheel#472, pypa/wheel#472).Pull Request Checklist
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