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Stop injecting wheel as a build dep fallback #716

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PEP 517 doesn't mandate depending on wheel when a __legacy__ setuptools fallback is used. Historically, it used to be assumed as necessary, but later it turned out to be wrong. The reason is that setuptools' get_requires_for_build_wheel() hook already injects this dependency when building wheels is requested [1]. It also used to have this hint in the docs, but it was corrected earlier [2].

This patch removes wheel from said requires list fallback.

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Motivation/backstory: I was reading https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2023/10/30/my-user-experience-porting-off-setup.py/ (it was shared @ pypa/packaging.python.org#1468) and it got me puzzled — I thought I'd gotten rid of all the prominent places newbies may copy-and-paste the suggestion to depend on wheel unconditionally...

@webknjaz webknjaz force-pushed the maintenance/pep517-fallback-wheel branch from 18cb2c1 to f951176 Compare December 23, 2023 02:38
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Similar PR in pip: pypa/pip#12449.

PEP 517 doesn't mandate depending on `wheel` when a `__legacy__`
setuptools fallback is used. Historically, it used to be assumed as
necessary, but later it turned out to be wrong. The reason is that
`setuptools`' `get_requires_for_build_wheel()` hook already injects
this dependency when building wheels is requested [[1]].
It also used to have this hint in the docs, but it was corrected
earlier [[2]].

This patch removes `wheel` from said `requires` list fallback.

[1]: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/v40.8.0/setuptools/build_meta.py#L130
[2]: pypa/setuptools#3056
@layday layday force-pushed the maintenance/pep517-fallback-wheel branch from f951176 to a7e3545 Compare January 17, 2024 09:21
@henryiii henryiii merged commit 0aced36 into pypa:main Jan 17, 2024
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Thanks!

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