[Distutils] Maintaining a curated set of Python packages

[Chris Barker - NOAA Federal]

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> I think it's unfair to describe these efforts as a "kludge";

I was specifically referring to using wheels to deliver C libs--
pip+wheel were not designed for that. But I don't mean to offend,
there has been a lot of great work done, and yes, the situation has
much improved as a result.

There are times when a kludge is called for!

-CHB