README.rst: Update installing from source section

This section was outdated as we have moved to pyproject.toml.

Signed-off-by: Pieter De Gendt <pieter.degendt@basalte.be>
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You can create and install a wheel package to install west as well. You can create and install a wheel package to install west as well.
The `wheel`_ Python package is required to do this. See "Installing Wheel"
below if you need to do this.
To build the west wheel file:: To build the west wheel file::
# macOS, Linux pip3 install --upgrade build
python3 setup.py bdist_wheel python -m build
# Windows
py -3 setup.py bdist_wheel
This will create a file named ``dist/west-x.y.z-py3-none-any.whl``, This will create a file named ``dist/west-x.y.z-py3-none-any.whl``,
where ``x.y.z`` is the current version in setup.py. where ``x.y.z`` is the current version in setup.py.
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You can ``pip3 uninstall west`` to remove this wheel before re-installing the You can ``pip3 uninstall west`` to remove this wheel before re-installing the
version from PyPI, etc. version from PyPI, etc.
Installing Wheel
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On macOS and Windows, you can install wheel with::
pip3 install wheel
That also works on Linux, but you may want to install wheel from your
system package manager instead -- e.g. if you installed pip from your
system package manager. The wheel package is likely named something
like ``python3-wheel`` in that case.
.. _wheel: https://wheel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/