some uglyness in Python imho

[Robin Becker]

In article <8pdcoj$huq$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, effbot at pythonware.com writes
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>
>And who's gonna make sure the DEF file is always kept
>100% up to date?
>
>Earlier versions of Python tried this approach.  Didn't
>work.  Since most development is done on Unix, important
>functions were always missing from the Windows DLL's.
>

Agreed it's a nightmare to do by hand, but there are tools that can
create a .def file automatically. Tcl at least used that approach and it
seemed to work.

The macro method seems most fragile when building and linking together a
number of DLLs so if A imports B then during the build of A it has to
export itself and import B and that seems to require two types of
declaration and presumably two macros.
-- 
Robin Becker