Add and use a pyproject-compatible build backend for extensions.

Review Request #14140 — Created Sept. 4, 2024 and updated — Latest diff uploaded

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release-7.1.x

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We now support building extensions entirely based on a pyproject.toml.
This will be the standard going forward, and will require the following
configuration:

[build-system]
requires = [
    'reviewboard~=<version>',
    'reviewboard[extension-packaging]',
]
build-backend = 'reviewboard.extensions.packaging.backend'

If there's an existing setup.py, then things will continue to work
as-is. If one doesn't exist, it will be generated during the lifecycle
of the build, calling into our own setup() method. This is the same
process that setuptools itself uses when building packages, since it
still uses its own machinery under the hood.

rbext create will now generate this file automatically, and no longer
generates setup.py.

The documentation has been updated to reference pyproject.toml and
show examples, replacing all old setup.py references, old references
to eggs, and old command line examples, in an effort to help modernize
some of this.

Generated new extensions and built them without issue.

Added a bare-bones pyproject.toml to an existing package, specifying
the new build backend, and verified it built.

Built the docs and went over the changes, making sure they didn't appear
broken.

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