Fix failing CI tests due to old setuptools (#7249)

* Require setuptools-70 so that bdist_wheel is available

* CI - upgrade setuptools and wheel before installing dev.env

The initial Python environment in GHA has very old setuptools,
which makes installation of dev.env requirements fail.

Author: pavoljuhas

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt-get install libffi7
       - name: Install requirements
         run: |
-          pip install wheel
+          pip install --upgrade setuptools wheel
           pip install --upgrade --upgrade-strategy eager -r dev_tools/requirements/dev.env.txt
       - name: Run Quil dependencies
         run: docker compose -f cirq-rigetti/docker-compose.test.yaml up -d
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt-get install libffi7
       - name: Install requirements
         run: |
-          pip install wheel
+          pip install --upgrade setuptools wheel
           pip install --upgrade --upgrade-strategy eager -r dev_tools/requirements/dev.env.txt
       - name: Run Quil dependencies
         run: docker compose -f cirq-rigetti/docker-compose.test.yaml up -d
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ jobs:
           key: ${{ env.pythonLocation }}-${{ hashFiles('**/requirements.txt', 'dev_tools/requirements/**/*.txt') }}
       - name: Install requirements
         run: |
-          pip install wheel
+          pip install --upgrade setuptools wheel
           pip install --upgrade --upgrade-strategy eager -r dev_tools/requirements/no-contrib.env.txt
       - name: Pytest Windows
         run: |
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ jobs:
           key: ${{ env.pythonLocation }}-${{ hashFiles('**/requirements.txt', 'dev_tools/requirements/**/*.txt') }}
       - name: Install requirements
         run: |
-          pip install wheel
+          pip install --upgrade setuptools wheel
           pip install --upgrade --upgrade-strategy eager -r dev_tools/requirements/no-contrib.env.txt
       - name: Pytest check
         run: check/pytest -n auto --durations=20 --ignore=cirq-core/cirq/contrib

dev_tools/requirements/deps/packaging.txt

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ virtualenv
 
 # for creating packages
 # TODO (juhas) - remove when pyquil allows packaging-24
-setuptools<77
+setuptools>=70,<77
 wheel
 
 # for uploading packages to pypi