Does distutils2/packaging support building shared libraries?

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Bill Janssen

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Dec 8, 2011, 1:46:56 PM12/8/11

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The main reason that PyLucene's JCC is using setuptools is that it can
build shared libraries properly for various platforms. Will it be
possible to move off setuptools and onto distutils2/packaging when
it's released? That is, will distutils2/packaging know how to build
share libraries?

Éric Araujo

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Dec 12, 2011, 12:09:42 PM12/12/11

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Hi,

This would be useful, please open a feature request on bugs.python.org.

Currently d2 has no support for shared libraries, only “C/C++
libraries”—not sure if they’re static or something else.