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

[Mark Sienkiewicz]

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.