Omitting context, as I mainly just wanted to note the setuptools file formats are reasonably well defined, independent of the current implementation: https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/formats.html#standard-metadata
I've actually been wondering if it may be worth doing 1.1 versions of both wheel and the installation database which explicitly call out these formats, as even after metadata 2.0 is completely stable, we'll still support these for backwards compatibility with 1.x metadata. If pip can get to the point of only needing to inject setuptools for the "develop" case, that would be a really nice improvement (although, as noted previously, I don't believe it's a requirement for the bootstrapping described in PEP 453) Cheers, Nick.
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