[Distutils] Metadata extension discovery?

[Marcus Smith]

Is the assumption for extensions in PEP426 that they would be added to the
one an only structure (in pydist.json) at the time of building the archive?
i.e. something that the project author adds.

The reason I ask is related to my comment in the other thread occuring
right now about how to handle external dependencies.   If the idea of using
extensions for external dependencies is going to work (and not require the
project authors to solely maintain it), then PEP426 would need to support
some system of discovery that can layer on more metadata at the time of
install that is not present in the archive.

Marcus
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