You can ask for ownership of the module and upgrade it to version 5. And yes, I do think this should be in core.

On 5/18/07, Darren Oh < darrenoh@sidepotsinternational.com> wrote:
On May 18, 2007, at 8:26 AM, William Smith wrote:

> Weighting.  Darren Oh, I do seem to remember there being a "module
> weight" module out there somewhere.  For 4.7, I believe.

Yes, I found it: http://drupal.org/project/moduleweight. It hasn't
been updated since it was released. Shouldn't a feature like this be
in core?