I'm the maintainer of wheel. I'm wondering if you would be interested in receiving an API for reading and writing wheels in this project. I've been wondering for a while if it makes any sense for PyPA to have so many packaging projects.

This is what I had in mind:

1. The new "wheel public API" would go into this project instead of wheel
2. setuptools would adopt this API and ditch wheel as a dependency for building wheels
3. wheel would depend on packaging at run time (currently it vendors this project) and become nothing but a CLI tool
4. (optional) auditwheel and wheel would be merged (preferably into wheel) (optional, to be discussed later)

The goal is to get rid of at least one PyPA project.