[Distutils] A smaller step towards de-specializing setuptools/distutils

[Marcus Smith]

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> > for example, going with your idea above, that we need to support 3rd
> party
> > tools being dynamic in the "setup.py bdist_wheel" step, not simply in the
> > "setup.py dist-info" step.
> >
> > and as it is, pip does't understand this possibility.
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> So in the new path, we wouldn’t call ``setup.py dist-info`` for “normal”
> installations, we’d compile a wheel and inspect that for dependencies.
>

ok, so a pretty significant change to pip's resolution internals.
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