Implement a simplified wheel builder (avoid undocumented pypa/wheel API) #3906
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Summary of changes
WheelBuilder
class 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_requires
andextra_requires
that deviates from core metadata #3903PKG-INFO
#3904pypa/wheel
API indist_info
#3905pypa/wheel
API ineditable_wheel
#3907bdist_wheel
frompypa/wheel
#3908The motivation for this series of PRs is the following:
.egg-info
and.dist-info
directories is intertwined and implicit(See Adopt bdist_wheel from wheel project #1386).
pypa/wheel
API which is not stable yet and is very likely to change in the future.pypa/wheel
maintainers previously described that the long term vision is to transferbdist_wheel
directly to
setuptools
(See pypa/wheel#262, pypa/wheel#472, pypa/wheel#472).Pull Request Checklist
changelog.d/
.(See documentation for details)