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

[Mark Sienkiewicz]

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.