[Distutils] C extension dependencies

[Marcus Smith]

>
>
> Yes to be specific the only thing I would personally be OK with adding to
> the
> pip core is something that added the appropiate hooks to let some other
> thing
> provide the platform specific mechanisms. I'm still not sure it's worth the
> effort over the simpler idea of just providing a build_hint metadata that
> authors can use to say "Hey you need to isntall libxml2 for this thing" or
> whatever.
>

I'd like to see us use PEP459 extensions to hold distro-specific
dependencies.
(as mentioned here:
https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi-metadata-formats/issue/16/external-requirements
)

I'm imagining a cross-distro community-maintained project that holds all
the json dependency data for all of pypi.
and then tooling could build up around that?
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