[IronPython] Cannot import module from .dll directly

[Jeff Hardy]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Dino Viehland <dinov at microsoft.com> wrote:
> What if we required the extension to be named "_foo.ipyd" or "_foo.ipe"
> or something along those lines which would be similar to CPython's
> .pyd extension?  That way we wouldn't be querying random DLLs that
> might or might not load and might have unexpected side effects.

Apparently CPython will only load .pyd and not .dll as of 2.5 (which I
just discovered), so it sounds like that is the way to go. I vote for
.ipyd.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to change the extension
of a class library from .dll (other than a post-build step), so you
should go bug the VS team about that :)

- Jeff