Hey all!

I'm opening this for discussion/to gauge interest.

TL;DR: I think it would be nice to have an "official" API for PEP 751 in packaging. This would ease/accelerate the adoption curve for Python packaging tooling that already uses packaging, since they could import existing APIs that are consistent across the entire ecosystem rather than doing their own at-hoc/at-point deserialization/modeling.

Some related thoughts:

• The existing models in pip's pylock.py might be a good starting point for this: https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/46c482f70ad41d0327c20803a46857a82dc6b6bd/src/pip/_internal/models/pylock.py

I'm curious what people think about this! CCing @brettcannon and @pradyunsg and @sbidoul in particular since I know you've all been involved in PEP 751 and its adoption 🙂

+CC @di @sethmlarson as other interested parties 🙂