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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:36:16 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com>
To: Mark Hadfield <m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz>
Cc: Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>,
        Robert Yodlowski <RYodlowski@Pirus.com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin Python 2.1, Numeric package, exporting init<module> methods
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In-Reply-To: <007c01c0d0fd$ff878a30$d938a8c0@Hadfield>; from m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:44:49AM +1200
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Mark,

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:44:49AM +1200, Mark Hadfield wrote:
> As I said above, would like to have Numeric Python working on Cygwin Python
> OOTB. I'm not sure that it's reasonable to ask the maintainers to add the
> DL_EXPORT macro to all module init functions, so I guess the .def files are
> the way to go.

IMO, submitting a patch to the Numpy maintainers using the DL_EXPORT
macro approach is the way to go.  This is the approach that I used
successfully for numerous standard Python modules.  See the following
for Tim Peters assessment of this approach:

    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-February/013292.html

I have also successfully used this with the Python LDAP module:

    http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/1568/2001/3/0/5307464/

Why don't you try the Numpy maintainers and see what they have to say?
Since they already support a Win32 port, I can't imagine much resistance
on their part.

Jason

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