[Distutils] Metadata fields

[Jack Jansen]

Could we add a field that would allow for the functionality that is
now in the (very little known) checkversion.py script?

I think that it would be good enough if the metadata file contained
the URL where the current metadata file is stored. What checkversion
would then do is run through your Python installation looking for
metadata files, and for each one found it would retrieve the current
version of that file over the net. If the version number in the
net-based file was higher than the one in the file on your disk it
would tell you there's a new version of the package available (and
probably offer to download it, etc).
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