sdists work well most of the time. Some problems 1 - hard to depend on something setup.py must import 2 - hard to use non-distutils build system due to the first problem and a poorly defined command line interface 3 - have to regenerate metadata to get dependencies
Assume we are not ever going to be able to remove support for pip install git+https:// or the current sdist. So you need new-sdist for 3, but could add 1 & 2 within the current framework by using an elaborate generic setup.py or by adding a measurable amount of complexity to pip. Perhaps the underlying code for 1 & 2 is needed to implement features desired in new-sdist.
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