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

Mark Sienkiewicz <sienkiew@stsci.edu> writes:

In that case, the .egg file should go on sys.path immediately before the directory where it is stored. This ensures that a setuptools .egg file will always be discovered before a distutils-installed package/module in the same directory, but it will not override packages/modules that occur earlier in sys.path.

What of distributions installed via setuptools that are *not* installed as eggs? -- \ “I do not believe in forgiveness as it is preached by the | `\ church. We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each | _o__) other and of ourselves.” —Robert G. Ingersoll | Ben Finney