help with source package including eggtrayicon

[Andres Baravalle]

Hi,
I am quite new with python and I'm developing a package that is
including a binary file (eggtrayiconmodule.so) that is open source.

My software is developed in part under linux, and now I would like to
make it fully portable to other unix-like platforms. Therefore I need
to provide the source and integrate eggtrayicon compiling in my
setup.py.

At this point I don't know how go on.

The copy of eggtrayicon I am using is provided by rhn-applet under
Fedora and other distributions, and if I'm not wrong is originally
part of Gnome.

But I do not know what to do with the package to obtain the .so
file... I have only a very rudimental base of C programming.

Is there anyone that can point me in the right direction? At the
present time I am using the python distutils to install/build the
python files, and a method that could be integrated would be
preferable.

Thanks in advance,
   Andres