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
• [3.13] gh-132415: Update vendored setuptools in Lib/test/wheeldata (GH-132887) #135391
• [3.12] gh-132415: Use shutil.which() in missing_compiler_executable() (GH-132906) #135392
• [3.12] gh-132415: Update vendored setuptools in `Lib/test/wheeldata (GH-132887) #135393

[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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