[Distutils] What metadata does pip actually need about sdists?

[Marcus Smith]

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> So instead, the current plan is that we're going
> to drop the libraries inside a wheel and upload it to PyPI:
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aha... ok, now it's clearer where you're coming from.
but using what platform in the wheel tag?
linux wheels are blocked currently

regardless of the tagging though, I'm not so sure about using PyPI like
this to hold all these "python" wrapper packages for binary extensions
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