[build] Fix editable build dependency compatibility

[yunusberndt]

Issue: N/A

Brief Summary

• Fix build configuration compatibility for editable/develop installs.
• Update development dependency pinning to avoid outdated/incompatible versions.

Walkthrough

• Updated setup.py build/dependency handling for current toolchain behavior.
• Updated requirements_dev.txt to consistent compatible versions.
• Verified local editable install/build flow in the Windows dev environment.

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Low Risk
Low risk build-tooling change that only affects development dependencies and setup.py clean behavior; main risk is cleanup not running correctly under unusual setuptools/distutils versions.

Overview
Improves editable/develop build compatibility by pinning setuptools<82 in requirements_dev.txt.

Updates setup.py’s Clean command to remove build artifacts via a new _remove_tree_compat() helper that adapts to remove_tree() signature differences across setuptools/distutils versions (respecting dry_run when supported).

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