[issue4908] adding a get_metadata in distutils

[Tarek Ziadé]

Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> added the comment:

It looks like the best way to do this is to:

- make distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata also read existing egg-info files

- add get_metadata in pkgutil instead of distutils, and make it use 
  distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata

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