zooko wrote:
What's the status of Mark Sienkiewicz's patch to solve the most widely-hated feature of setuptools (that it disrespects the order of your PYTHONPATH) while also satisfying PJE's requirements for precedence of egg importing?
It would make certain things easier if I could install setuptools, so this patch is not entirely outside my job description, but I have a lot of work with a higher priority. I still intend to get to it at some point. If somebody else wants to write it, go right ahead. Just send me an email so I know you're doing it and don't write a conflicting patch. One of the followups to the message you cited contains requirements (or as close as you're likely to get, anyway) for the patch. I also posted a brief outline of a patch some time before that. As far as I can tell, defining that set of requirements is the hard part of the patch. The actual implementation is not rocket science. Mark S.