Merge pull request #2681 from pypa/feature/omit-setup-requires

Remove 'wheel' from setup_requires.

changelog.d/2681.change.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Setuptools own setup.py no longer declares setup_requires, but instead expects wheel to be installed as declared by pyproject.toml.

setup.py

@@ -29,9 +29,6 @@
     package_data.setdefault('setuptools', []).extend(['*.exe'])
     package_data.setdefault('setuptools.command', []).extend(['*.xml'])
 
-needs_wheel = set(['release', 'bdist_wheel']).intersection(sys.argv)
-wheel = ['wheel'] if needs_wheel else []
-
 
 def pypi_link(pkg_filename):
     """
@@ -95,8 +92,6 @@ def _restore_install_lib(self):
             'wincertstore-0.2.zip#md5=ae728f2f007185648d0c7a8679b361e2',
         ),
     ],
-    setup_requires=[
-    ] + wheel,
 )
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':