Please consider this patch: http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue53 # respect the PYTHONPATH
It is the biggest issue for many people. In the ticket PJE describes several caveats about how that patch could interfere with other use cases. I find it hard to keep track of the way different changes would impact competing use cases. I love the Twisted development process in which such requirements get codified into unit tests which get run automatically by a buildbot. Then I can look at the buildbot and if it is green I know that none of the supported use cases have regressed. I've been doing something similar for the building/ packaging/installing use cases of the TahoeLAFS project (which is based on setuptools, or more precisely a tiny fork of setuptools maintained by myself). See http://allmydata.org/buildbot .
Think we could cook up something like that for the setuptools2 (nee "Distribute") project?
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