[Distutils] Remove distutils, was: red, green, refactor ...

[Daniel Holth]

The strategy that we are successfully pursuing is to standardize around
file formats that the build tools generate and the installers and runtime
can consume. For example we can convert a setuptools egg or a bdist_wininst
.exe to a wheel, and in the future we will be able to convert e-mail style
PKG-INFO to json. It's much easier to test whether a tool is producing
correct metadata than to decide whether the API is compatible.
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