Steve Dower added the comment:

That sounds like a great feature for setuptools.

Core distutils is highly focused on what is needed for the core product, and we 
are very much trying to avoid bloating it, whereas setuptools is free to add 
extensions wherever necessary and make them available on earlier versions of 
Python.

The setuptools issue tracker is at https://github.com/pypa/setuptools

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