> The mystery to me is why MacOSX introduced .dylib instead of > sticking with .so.
There were *.so files and hacks to load them. But the structure od dylib is different and uses a slightly different loader, dyld. I guess they wanted to make a distinction. The had some kind of Obj C dynamic plugin things as well. Software history is full of regrets. — John Skaller skal...@internode.on.net _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel