[Distutils] Fwd: add install_paths.json to .egg-info and .dist-info directory

[Vinay Sajip]

> From: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>
>On 13 May 2015 at 00:44, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:

>> As a prerequisite to adding useful finer-grained installations to
>> setuptools & wheel, I propose adding install_paths.json as a metadata

> +1, this sounds like a good incremental step forward to me. I'm not

> sure how best to document it, though. Perhaps have this initial> increment as an implementation detail, and then formalise it in the
> next version of the wheel spec.


Sounds like a reasonable idea to me, too. But IIUC this file will be written by an installer, but not necessarily present in the wheel - is that right? If not present in the wheel (or perhaps anyway) ISTM it makes sense to specify it in PEP 426 because it's part of the installation metadata.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip