Add .par functionality (like Java .jar)
Kragen Sitaker
kragen at pobox.com
Thu May 23 15:11:45 EDT 2002
Paul Moore <gustav at morpheus.demon.co.uk> writes:
> The main lack is the ability to handle compiled extensions, but you're
> never going to get that without OS support. Just ship the necessary
> .dll/.so files separately, and manipulate sys.path, if you need to.
Maybe on Windows, but you don't need OS support on Linux. The
.so-loading equipment on Linux is purely user-level code --- it just
uses mmap() to map in the files. This is done in elf/dl-open.c and
elf/dl-load.c in glibc.
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