[Distutils] Towards a simple and standard sdist format that isn't intertwined with distutils

[Marcus Smith]

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>  So downstream distributors can download an sdist - or even a tarball of a
> VCS tag, if they're being strict about it - build wheels from that using
> the config in this proposal, and then transform the wheels into their own
> package format.
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this has wheel itself being the interoperability standard.
the going idea is that there would be a metadata artifact ("pydist.json" in
PEP426), that provides the standard across different formats.


> Longer term, I think the answer is sdist 2.0 which has proper metadata
> inside of it (name, version, dependencies, etc) but which also includes a
> hook like this PEP has to specify the build system
>
> I hadn't heard of this before - is it something that's being worked on?
>

I haven't seen any PEP's for it yet.
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