Update bundled setupotools in test.wheeldata and remove wheel.whl

[stefanor]

Bug report

Bug description:

test.wheeldata includes bundled setuptools and wheel wheels to build packages. Since setuptools>=0.70.1, the bdist_wheel method is natively included in setuptools, and there's no necessity to have the wheel library available, to build wheels any more.

Relatedly, wheel>=0.46.0 de-vendored the packaging library, so current versions of wheel can't be used without having packaging available too.

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

Linked PRs

• gh-132415: Update setuptools.whl in test.wheeldata to 70.3.0, drop wheel.whl #132867
• gh-132415: Update vendored setuptools in Lib/test/wheeldata #132887
• Revert "gh-132415: Update vendored setuptools in `Lib/test/wheeldata (#132887)" #132900
• gh-132415: Fix NameError in test_cppext/setup.py #132903
• gh-132415: Use shutil.which() in missing_compiler_executable() #132906
• [3.13] gh-132415: Use shutil.which() in missing_compiler_executable() (GH-132906) #132916

[AA-Turner]

Do tests fail with different versions of wheel installed? I'm trying to work out if this is just a cosmetic change.

[stefanor]

With the new setuptools, wheel isn't used any more, so bumping it or not makes no difference.

[AA-Turner]

Adding/updating binary artefacts increases the repository size, with little observable/user benefit in this case (a test file). It might be easier just to do the update though, we will probably see more 'update' PRs (such as @hroncok's #132867, which I imagine was inadvertant -- it took me a couple of minutes to find this issue again).

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[hroncok]

Sorry for the duplicate issue and PR. I did not find this one.

Here is my rationale from #132866

In Fedora, we use our own setuptools and wheel wheels from WHEEL_PKG_DIR to test Python.

wheel 0.45+ now depends on packaging pypa/wheel#655

Since we would like to update our wheel and we already updated setuptools to a version that does not require wheel to create wheels, I was wondering whether we could update setuptools in https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/main/Lib/test/wheeldata to 70.1+ and drop the wheel.whl. That would make it easier for us to update.

[AA-Turner]

Ok. I've opened a new PR, as wheeldata isn't covered by the ensurepip tooling, and also to use a newer release. See #132887.

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[hroncok]

Thanks

[vstinner]

test_cppext started to fail with this change:

ERROR: test_build_limited (test.test_cppext.TestCPPExt.test_build_limited)
ERROR: test_build_limited_cpp03 (test.test_cppext.TestCPPExt.test_build_limited_cpp03)

  NameError: name 'sys' is not defined. Did you forget to import 'sys'?

I merged #132902 to fix the regression. In fact, the bug was already there before, but the setuptools update caused the regression. It's unclear to me how the code worked before that.

Note: @AA-Turner wrote the same fix than me 4 minutes later, but I merged my fix instead.

[vstinner]

More side effects of the change:

• New "DeprecationWarning: Use shutil.which instead of find_executable" warning: fixed by gh-132415: Use shutil.which() in missing_compiler_executable() #132906
• New "DeprecationWarning: dep_util is Deprecated": I created test_peg_generator fails when using -Werror: dep_util is Deprecated #132921 issue.

[stefanor]

Thanks all!