[Distutils] Building shared libraries?

[Hans Meine]

Hi!

I know that distutils' purpose is not to re-implement libtool, but..  it seems 
that it is a common problem that one wants to ship several extension modules 
which rely on the same code.  E.g. we have several image processing functions 
split across several extension modules (written in C++), and we need them all 
to know about our PythonImage class.  (E.g. PythonImage::subImage(...) or the 
like.)

A natural way to solve this is to compile pythonimage.cxx into a small shared 
library which the extension modules link against.  So far, it seems that all 
projects which have this problem use Extension(...) to build a shared library 
or call make / do whatever custom hacks were necessary for them. (One source 
of information were the answers to David Abrahams question some years ago: 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2002-October/002966.html and I 
also asked on C++-sig lately: 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/c++-sig/2007-February/011973.html )

Would it be possible to add a distutils.SharedLibrary class?  (OK, would 
someone be willing to provide the code? ;-) )

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