On Nov 30, 2010, at 10:12 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:

>The value of get_config_var("SO") is the same as before, something like
>".cpython-32.so" by default on Linux. (see, I just moved the line
>SO=.$SOABI$SO at the bottom of the patch).

Cool, thanks.

>In the C file dynload_shlib.c, I chose the names SO_BASE for the "simple"
>extension (.so) and SO_EXTRA for the "decorated" extension (.cpython-32.so)

Since I used SOABI earlier, what do you think about SOBASE and SOEXTRA for
consistency?

>Is there a way to write unit tests for all this? This would prove that the
>default behavior is the same as before.

It would, but I couldn't think of a way to do that reliably across platform.