[Distutils] tracking requested vs dependency installs in PEP 376 metadata

[Carl Meyer]

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Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> I am starting to think when reading back this whole thread, that
> there's a missing API:
> a way to read and write arbitrary files in the egg-info directory of
> an installed distribution.

I thought of that as well when writing the demo REQUESTED functionality
- - I was duplicating work that was already done for RECORD and INSTALLER.
pkg_resources has this generic API and it seems to work well.

Even if PEP 376 gains that API, IMO the REQUESTED metadata is useful
enough to be standardized, rather than restricted to a particular tool.

Carl
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