[Distutils] setuptools: including shared libraries the Right Way

[Andrew Straw]

I'm trying to include shared libraries (built by scons invoked from my 
setup.py script) into built eggs. I can do this just fine with the 
package_data command, but then the egg isn't known to be platform 
dependent. This is somewhat puzzling, because setuptools notices the 
library and lists it in .egg-info/native_libs.txt. Perhaps this is 
expected behavior because, in theory, I could include pre-built native 
libraries of more than one platform, or the native libraries might only 
be required on one platform.

This leads me to the bdist_egg --plat-name option, which doesn't seem to 
work in this case. "python setup.py bdist_egg --plat-name=abc" doesn't 
produce an .egg with "abc" in the filename. This is apparently because 
setuptools thinks the egg doesn't contain C extensions.

Perhaps the solution to this issue is to tell setuptools "yes, I did 
build C extensions". How would I achieve this?

Any suggestions?
-Andrew