The setup.py file is what governs everything when you want to interact with a Python project. When the setup() method is executed, it generates a static metadata file, which follows the PEP 314 format. The metadata file holds all the metadata for the project, but you need to regenerate it via a setup() call to get it ;to the Python environment you are using.
The reason why you cannot use a static version is that the author of a project might have platform-specific code in ;setup.py, which generates a different metadata file depending on the platform and Python versions.
To rely on running a Python module to extract static information about a project has always been a problem. You need to make sure that the code in the module ...
