[Distutils] DEF Files

[Robert Kern]

I may be missing something, but is it permissible for distutils to 
generate a temporary DEF file that exists only until the end of the 
compilation?

If the initialization function of our extension is 'initfoo' then the 
DEF file is as follows:

"""EXPORTS
    initfoo
"""

Leading whitespace is optional.  I don't believe that anything else is
necessary.  Since the mapping from module name to function name is 
one-to-one, distutils already has the required information at hand.

FWIW, I agree with David that requiring modifying the source of an 
extension is not a good thing.  It only adds a headache for people trying to port from *NIX to
Windows (and we have enough to deal with, 
believe me), and it pollutes the code with weird MS extensions.

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