Developer builds using `pip` now fails

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I usually do pip install -e . to get a developer build of scikit-image. I now see:

      error: Support for editable installs via PEP 660 was recently introduced
      in `setuptools`. If you are seeing this error, please report to:

      https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues

      Meanwhile you can try the legacy behavior by setting an
      environment variable and trying to install again:

      SETUPTOOLS_ENABLE_FEATURES="legacy-editable"

The recommended solution does not work. Any ideas?

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We had seen this previously for setuptools 65.0 and 65.1 in PyWavelets, but it had been fixed in 65.2. We ended up pinning to setuptools<65 in our pyproject.toml: provide setuptools upper bound for robustness against future changes by grlee77 · Pull Request #647 · PyWavelets/pywt · GitHub

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