Re: [Distutils] patch: solving the two major things that people dislike about setuptools, part 1

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

Packages that aren't installed in eggs don't need to be "before their own directory". The only reason that .egg files or directories do, is because if there's a non-egg package in the same directory, it could conflict with or override the .egg version otherwise.

In that case, do you find my proposed patch acceptable? Mark S.