[Distutils] [Python-Dev] packaging location ?

[Daniel Holth]

Bento's documentation and source code should be required reading for
anyone doing Python packaging work. It is actually well designed,
which comes as something of a shock if you are accustomed to hacking
on nested-subcommands-that-initialize-and-call-each-other. Bento
cleanly separates the build and install phases, it includes an
intermediate JSON metadata "ipkg.info" with the PEP metadata, install
paths, and file lists, it is easy to hack on. It needs a better lexer.

https://gist.github.com/3715068 - the intermediate (not human
editable) package info.