[notmuch] SWIG (and particularly Python) bindings

[Ben Gamari]

Excerpts from Scott Robinson's message of Wed Dec 30 06:34:15 -0500 2009:
> Excerpts from Adrian Perez de Castro's message of Wed Dec 30 02:52:23 -0800 2009:
> > BTW, I think that if more bindings start to appear, Notmuch might be built
> > as a shared library, to avoid duplicating it everywhere. One option may be
> > using *just* libtool but not the rest of auto-foo tools (for the record:
> > I agree with Carl that they are slow and wicked).
> 
> http://github.com/quad/notmuch/tree/libtool

Is this branch being considered for merge? The build output arguably
isn't as pretty as it was before, but it seems to work. Moreover, my
SWIG patches currently depend upon having a shared library involved.

- Ben