update script to build releases, to also build wheels

The commented-out command used "bdist", which produces a "dumb" format
(that's what the setuptools docs call it! it's an alias for
"bdist_dumb"). A tarball that can be extracted to / and installs a
system image containing e.g.  /usr/lib/python3.12 and /usr/share/, but
no metadata outside of that.

It apparently may have also generated a wheel at some point? But current
versions of setuptools do no such thing. And wheels are what we actually
want, since we uploaded them for years and they are faster for PyPI
users to install.

The canonical command name for producing wheels is actually
"bdist_wheel" instead of "bdist_dumb". No clue what setuptools changed,
about the latter, but the former definitely works.
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Eli Schwartz 4 months ago
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      packaging/builddist.sh

@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ mkdir $GENDIR
cp -r .git $GENDIR
cd $GENDIR
git reset --hard
#python3 setup.py sdist bdist
python3 setup.py sdist
python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
cp dist/* ../dist
cd ..
rm -rf $GENDIR

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