* Now that packaging has stabilized, removes old mechanisms for loading extensions, preferring direct importing.
* Removes _cext_loader.py, _dlloader.py as unnecessary.
* Fixes the path where the CAPI dll is written on Windows. This enables that path of least resistance loading behavior to work with no further drama (see: https://bugs.python.org/issue36085).
* With this patch, `ninja check-mlir` on Windows with Python bindings works for me, modulo some failures that are actually due to a couple of pre-existing Windows bugs. I think this is the first time the Windows Python bindings have worked upstream.
* Downstream changes needed:
* If downstreams are using the now removed `load_extension`, `reexport_cext`, etc, then those should be replaced with normal import statements as done in this patch.
Reviewed By: jdd, aartbik
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D108489
This will allow the bindings to be built as a library and reused in out-of-tree
projects that want to provide bindings on top of MLIR bindings.
Reviewed By: stellaraccident, mikeurbach
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101075
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