[Python-Dev] Location of .so files (Was: Sharing expat instances)

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> The relevance to "sharing expat instances" was Fredrik's original
> question about placement of the shared library for cElementTree.  The
> question wasn't whether to get rid of lib-dynload in general, but
> whether there was any reason to do something other than just making
> ElementTree a distutils-installed package with the C extensions inside,
> the way normal distutils-installed packages are.

I understood the question was whether specifically to place cElementTree
into xml.etree; I think such scenarios had been avoided because people
want to run Python from the build tree, both on Unix and Windows. This
breaks if the extension modules are expected in packages, rather than
being toplevel.

Whether or not they then end up in lib-dynload is a different issue;
as I said, I can't see anything wrong with it.

Regards,
Martin