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

[Robert Collins]

On 13 October 2015 at 01:52, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> I could be wrong but if egg-info actually generated a dist-info directory it
> would probably still work.

I'd worry about fallout - since pip doesn't need to change (much)
either way, I'd be inclined to be specific and allow setuptools to
merely define the bootstrap code and opt in to later changes without
pressure.

-Rob

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