[Distutils] Meeting info re: sdists

[Daniel Holth]

>
> I believe the '426 is draft' ship has sailed: metadata.json is present
> in .dist-info in wheels and has been for some time. (e.g. see
>
> https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/r/reddit_bot/reddit_bot-0.1.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl#md5=86518fc20388c1d8e567cf2d4cfe1a03
> ). As such we're going to need to take the 'compatible changes to it
> in-place, incompatible changes need a new schema version' approach
> IMO.
>
> Otherwise, when we start consuming it, we'll be reading draft versions
> and assigning different meanings.
>
> I think future specs should issue the final version in the schema only
> when the PEP is made non-draft.
>

bdist_wheel intentionally generates metadata.json but the PEP specifies
pydist.json.
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