[Distutils] Dynamic linking on Linux, Mac OS, et al

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 02:11 PM 1/6/2006 +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote:
>Unless you do something really magical, you're going to find a lot of 
>resistance to this in most Linux distro camps. Gentoo will want to 
>recompile via emerge. Fedora/CentOS will want to grab from yum. Debian 
>will want to grab libs via apt.

The issue for the PyICU/PyLucene etc. use cases is that there are a whole 
bunch of SWIG wrappers for different extensions, but with a large common 
library for type mapping etc.  The authors want a shared library for *their 
own code* that is used by multiple extensions.  This is not separately 
distributed code.

This is not the same thing as the Windows use case for building a shared 
library, although the ability to do it on Windows satisfies this use case too.