[Distutils] Are there any plans to move to pip/wheels in buildout?

[Donald Stufft]

> On Dec 3, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> 
> - Implementing and maintaining packaging code isn't really all that
>  interesting to me and, I'd hazard to guess, to anyone else on the
>  buildout team.  Buildout has more packaging code than I ever wanted
>  to write.  It does largely because it needed policies and features
>  not provided by easy_install. (This is not meant to disparage
>  easy_install, which was a ground-breaking tool.)

If you can enumerate what buildout needs or wants from a packaging tool that would be useful to keep in mind going forward.