Avoid pypa/wheel API in editable_wheel
#3907
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Summary of changes
WheelBuilderand_core_metadataintroduced in previous PRs instead ofpypa/wheel.(The
pypa/wheelAPIs for building wheel files are likely to change in the future)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
changelog.d/.(See documentation for details)