bdist_wheel.dist_info_dir seems to have broken building some projects (e.g. pyyaml).

[abravalheri]

          This seems to have broken building some projects.  https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml I am seeing failures like:

Processing /home/tcaswell/source/p/yaml/pyyaml
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): started
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'done'
Building wheels for collected packages: PyYAML
  Building wheel for PyYAML (pyproject.toml): started
  Building wheel for PyYAML (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'error'
Failed to build PyYAML

  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Building wheel for PyYAML (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [6 lines of output]
      usage: _in_process.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
         or: _in_process.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
         or: _in_process.py --help-commands
         or: _in_process.py cmd --help

      error: option --dist-info-dir not recognized
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for PyYAML
ERROR: ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (PyYAML)

with the main branch of setuptools, but going back to the commit before this was merged (3106af0 which is v75.1.0) works again.

I have not had time to debug this further and it is not all packages nor do I know if this is the only one.

Originally posted by @tacaswell in #4647 (comment)