setuptools_wheel: Build the setuptools package as a wheel#

After installing setuptools and wheel, we build a wheel of setuptools to complete the set of wheels stored in our wheelhouse.

This version of setuptools is suitable for PEP 517/518/660 builds, but it is not suitable for building numpy.

Type#

standard

Dependencies#

$(PYTHON)
setuptools: Build system for Python packages
wheel: A built-package format for Python

Version Information#

package-version.txt:

65.6.3

install-requires.txt:

# We use this file to mark the package as a Python package

Equivalent System Packages#

See https://repology.org/project/python:setuptools/versions

However, these system packages will not be used for building Sage because using Python site-packages is not supported by the Sage distribution; see github issue #29023