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

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Nov 25 23:10:35 CET 2008


At 01:29 PM 11/25/2008 -0700, zooko wrote:
>My patch is intended to make the answer to #2 be "yes" from now on,
>while preserving the current behavior of the answer to #1 being "yes".

It doesn't preserve #1 in the case where the directory where the eggs 
are installed is *itself* on the PYTHONPATH, which is why I rejected 
it in its current form.




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