[Distutils] PEP 516 and pypa.json

[Ethan Furman]

Greetings!

I saw PEP-0516 go through check-ins, and had a question about the 
pypa.json portion of the proposal -- namely, why are we using a .json file?

I presume this is a file that will be created by hand, and while json is 
not as ugly as xml, it's certainly not pretty.

Can we not use an .ini file, or a white-space significant format?  The 
latter should be familiar, if not comfortable, to any Python programmer.

--
~Ethan~