[Distutils] extensions in packages

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Mark Hammond wrote:
> 
> FWIW, I _do_ use DLLs in packages, and it causes me no end of grief.  I
> need to have special runtime hacks that works with __path__, I need a
> special __init__ in the package where the DLL is to "appear", and also need
> even further special casing for Freeze!

I've been using DLL/SOs in packages with much success for some time
now. Don't know why you need any hacks to get this going though:
it works right out of the box for me.

The situation is a little different for frozen apps without shared
libs though: the extension modules will become top-level modules.
Haven't frozen those kinds of apps yet, but it should still work
out of the box (except maybe when you pass pickles from an
app using top-level modules to one using in-package modules).
 
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