[Distutils] Builders vs Installers

[Vinay Sajip]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:

> It all adds up to it making far more sense to just switch the format to JSON
for 2.0 rather than persisting with ad hoc attempts to use a key-value multidict
for structured data storage.

+1, and I sincerely hope you will take a look at the JSON metadata used in
distlib/distil to good advantage in dependency resolution, and installing,
archiving and building distributions.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip