Whenever I get a question on C-Extension's I turn the question around and ask "Do you need a C-Extension"? What I invariably find is that the C-Extension is being used to overcome a short-coming in Informix-4gl, and the C-Extension can be replaced with some pure Genero code that we have introduced to do what Informix-4gl did not do.
These are some of the scenarios I find a C library being used for when a Genero library is now available...
- Reading/Writing to a File (base.Channel)
- Interacting with Files/Directories (os.Path)
- Advanced Mathematics and Random Numbers (util.Math)
- Security Algorithms (util.security)
Removing the C-Extension and using a Genero code can simplify your build and deployment practices.
Read more at https://4js.com/ask-reuben/ig-6/