[Distutils] Getting dependecies of package from PyPiJSON

[John Thorvald Wodder II]

[Sending to the list this time]

On 2017 Jul 20, at 12:41, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
> So while it might be possible to add some sort of feature
> to inspect wheels at upload and then store the specific dependencies
> declared therein and report those back via an API method, I expect
> coverage across packages in general would be fairly low today.

PyPI (both Legacy and Warehouse) actually does do this already; see the `requires_dist` field in, e.g., <https://pypi.org/pypi/qypi/json>. However, this only seems to work if the maintainer uploads the wheel before uploading the sdist (unless the sdist is a .zip instead of a .tar.gz, then it can be uploaded first?  I'm not sure).