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

[zooko]

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?

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-January/010768.html

Here's the ticket:

http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue53 # respect the PYTHONPATH

Regards,

Zooko